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Speaker 1: That pretty much sums it up. Joe, I was sitting
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Speaker 1: what Joe. What's sound by? Joe is going to lead
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Speaker 1: at fifty five Carsy Morning Show'm Brian Thomas, host of
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Speaker 1: you had a wonderful weekend. A very happy Monday to everybody.
Speaker 1: Thanks for tuning into the program, and stick around because
Speaker 1: it is Monday, meaning we're gonna hear from Christopher Smith
Speaker 1: and former Vice Mayor of the City of Cincinnati Every
Speaker 1: Monday at seven twenty with the Smither vent no idea
Speaker 1: what he's going to talk about. I never do, but
Speaker 1: I always enjoy hearing his thoughts and his comments. A
Speaker 1: man of logic and reason he is, and someone who
Speaker 1: as a financial planner probably is interested in the Moodies downgrade,
Speaker 1: and we're going to talk about that with Brian James.
Speaker 1: It is Monday. We do Money Monday with Brian James
Speaker 1: every Monday at eight oh five. We'll talk to the
Speaker 1: Moody's credit rating down grade and the reasons for it,
Speaker 1: which apparently the Republicans have no concept over. I'm so
Speaker 1: so upset with the Republicans over this so called big
Speaker 1: beautiful bill. It's kind of running off the rails anyhow,
Speaker 1: it did come out of committee last night. But we'll
Speaker 1: talk about the details of that coming up. The homes
Speaker 1: starter home market in Cincinnati topic number two with Brian James.
Speaker 1: And finally, big summer vacations apparently out of style considering
Speaker 1: the cost of things and not shocking to me, but
Speaker 1: we'll find out the reasons behind that with Brian James.
Speaker 1: Eighth five, followed by Tim Hester. He's a Cincinni native
Speaker 1: and Air Force veteran served in Iraq. Thank you for
Speaker 1: your service to our country, Tim Hester, he's promoting the
Speaker 1: PBS documentary Defying Death on the Atlantic tenth anniversary the
Speaker 1: Field of Memory celebration honoring the brave men and women
Speaker 1: who have made the ultimate sacrifice serving our country. Arlington
Speaker 1: Memorial Gardens obtained the exclusive rights of this premiere. The
Speaker 1: PBS documentary documentary tells the story this is crazy four
Speaker 1: man rowing team of Air Force veterans. They called the
Speaker 1: team Team Fight or Die, or spelled oar with a
Speaker 1: little but I'm bump. So Team Fighter Die embarked on
Speaker 1: a perilous three thousand mile ocean rowing race called the
Speaker 1: World's Toughest Row. How about signing up for that, Joe. Anyways,
Speaker 1: back in twenty twenty two, boat had capsized when they
Speaker 1: were hit by a thirty foot twell ended up spending
Speaker 1: eighteen hours in a life draft before being miraculously rescued.
Speaker 1: So that's the backstory behind the documentary. It should be
Speaker 1: a rather interesting conversation with Tim Hester. So that'll take
Speaker 1: place at eight forty anyhow, for we move on to
Speaker 1: other things, like Moody's down, Gray, I see Luke's on
Speaker 1: the phone. Let's see what Luce got to say? This morning, Luke,
Speaker 1: thanks for calling the morning showing a very happy Monday
Speaker 1: to you, sir.
Speaker 5: Yeah, happy Monday, Brian. I'm just here, you know of PA.
Speaker 5: Public announcements remain every year about you know, the notchal
Speaker 5: disaction at Kentucky, and they just had me thinking, you know, we're.
Speaker 6: Dead or number pretty close to a number I can't
Speaker 6: fathom mathematically realistically.
Speaker 5: But what I can a fat him is, anytime there's
Speaker 5: a notch disaster here at home in America.
Speaker 6: There should be a part of the garment should be
Speaker 6: there with the dag on silver platter to pick that
Speaker 6: family up. We've given so much money, I mean, we
Speaker 6: camorrhage money like it's nothing. But the minute there's some
Speaker 6: real disaster here in America back like they can't find
Speaker 6: the fund so they can't, you know, figure out how
Speaker 6: to get it in the budget or some bureaucracy something
Speaker 6: that just makes us all angry.
Speaker 5: It's so stupid.
Speaker 6: We see it in our regular business in life. But
Speaker 6: the government actually they can't figure out how to cut
Speaker 6: a check. They should be there with freaking one hundred
Speaker 6: dollars bills. NSAMI truck I get took in the Middle
Speaker 6: East to take care of our citizens that have been
Speaker 6: through the national disaster and lost their home.
Speaker 1: Well, I hear the anger in your voice, look and
Speaker 1: I share it. But let's face it, anytime you turn
Speaker 1: to a bloated federal government for relief and efficiency, you're
Speaker 1: barking up the wrong tree. They've demonstrated incompetence in every
Speaker 1: single area of government. This is just one more where
Speaker 1: they botch it. I mean, you can't anticipate when and
Speaker 1: where a natural disaster will strike, but they seem to
Speaker 1: be able to find money for everything else on the planet,
Speaker 1: and yet when it comes to the American citizens and
Speaker 1: their well being, You're right, priorities seem to be out
Speaker 1: of whack. I can't deny that. I can't deny it,
Speaker 1: but I share your frustration generally. But my frustration with
Speaker 1: federal government goes way beyond FEMA, and it's incompetence. And
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Speaker 1: That's where your dollar is going to go. The farthest
Speaker 1: I am. I'm not affiliated anyway with that ministry. I
Speaker 1: just know they do great work and they have practically
Speaker 1: no overhead. So a donation Matthew twenty five is going
Speaker 1: to mean money and resources and supplies getting to the
Speaker 1: people that actually need it, well oiled machine, unlike FEMA.
Speaker 1: So we are the most charitable people on the planet
Speaker 1: when it comes to things like this, And so maybe
Speaker 1: we can keep that in mind, help fulfill Maybe you
Speaker 1: have a Christian responsibility to help your fellow men. Maybe
Speaker 1: not Christian, and maybe it's just sort of general philosophy, ethics, morality,
Speaker 1: whatever happens to be, whatever drives it. There are ways
Speaker 1: to help out that don't involve the federal government. And
Speaker 1: again this is why I feel so sorry for people
Speaker 1: who are stuck and hooked up to the milical court
Speaker 1: of federal government. More and more people every year as
Speaker 1: we discuss medicaid and curbing the Medicaid dollars spent. One
Speaker 1: of the reasons Moody's downgraded US is because the growing
Speaker 1: burden financing the federal government's budget deficit and the rising
Speaker 1: costs rolling over existing debt amid higher interest rates. Yeah,
Speaker 1: one of the reasons we've got a massive budget debt
Speaker 1: is because they expanded medicaid to a whole bunch of
Speaker 1: people that can work and should be working. And I
Speaker 1: can't believe the Republicans fighting against themselves and amongst themselves
Speaker 1: someonet to keep the medicaid expansion. There that the work
Speaker 1: requirement under the prior bill, and I'm not sure if
Speaker 1: they've ratcheted back, although promises have been made to some
Speaker 1: of the more conservative Republicans are fighting for sanity, that
Speaker 1: they will move the work obligation back from previously twenty
Speaker 1: twenty nine. Why do you have to wait so long
Speaker 1: to put a work mandate in therefore able bodied people. Anyhow,
Speaker 1: you set to demonstrate that you're trying. And I keep
Speaker 1: pointing out the trades. What a wonderful opportunity for some
Speaker 1: folks who are hooked up to the Biblical court of government.
Speaker 1: Dicey proposition that given the finite number of dollars we
Speaker 1: have in the world and the fact that we keep
Speaker 1: blowing through more than they actually take in. According to
Speaker 1: the statement for Moody's, this one notch downgrade and our
Speaker 1: twenty one notch rating scale reflects the increase over more
Speaker 1: than a decade in government debt and interest payment ratios
Speaker 1: to levels that are significantly higher than similarly rated sovereigns HM.
Speaker 1: They say this lower credit profile will probably have to
Speaker 1: lift the yield that people demand in order to buy
Speaker 1: US treasury debt to reduce to reflect more risk, and
Speaker 1: could dampen sentiment toward owning US assets, including stocks. Now
Speaker 1: apparently the other credit rategencies already done this to US.
Speaker 1: Moody's described as a holdout in keeping our sovereign debt
Speaker 1: at the highest debt rating possible or credit rating possible,
Speaker 1: but now brings Moodies in line with its rivals at
Speaker 1: standard and poor. Downgraded US in August of twenty eleven.
Speaker 1: Pitch Ratings downgraded US in August of twenty twenty three.
Speaker 1: It just took Moodies a lot longer, Moody's analysts in
Speaker 1: the statements. Successive US administrations in Congress have failed to
Speaker 1: agree on measures to reverse the trend of large annual
Speaker 1: fiscal deficits and growing interest costs. We do not believe
Speaker 1: that material multi year reductions in mandatory spending and deficits
Speaker 1: will result from current fiscal proposals under consideration. The big
Speaker 1: beautiful bill. I think that's what that is in reference
Speaker 1: to and no kidding headlines Wall Street Journal this morning,
Speaker 1: the stark math on the GOP tax plan. It doesn't
Speaker 1: cut the deficits. The plan will not reduce federal budget
Speaker 1: deficits and would make them America's fiscal hole deeper. Current
Speaker 1: proposal projected buzzet it will increase projected budget deficits by
Speaker 1: nearly three trillion dollars through twenty thirty four, walking in
Speaker 1: tax cuts and spending increases that outweigh reductions and spending
Speaker 1: on medicaid and nutrition assistance. So they're getting some, but
Speaker 1: they're not doing enough. Some Republicans are claiming that higher
Speaker 1: economic growth is the growth is going to fill the gap,
Speaker 1: but that's not exactly in line with many budget analysts,
Speaker 1: particularly given the murky landscape dealing with these tariffs that
Speaker 1: are in place. So I don't I really don't know
Speaker 1: what to say. There's more details on this, obviously, we
Speaker 1: can get into them. But I'm so so thoroughly disappointed.
Speaker 1: You got so called moderate Republicans clinging to their green
Speaker 1: energy projects because they happen to be in their state,
Speaker 1: even though they never would have been there but for
Speaker 1: that sort of inflation Reduction Act, which had nothing to
Speaker 1: do with reducing inflation but everything to do with with
Speaker 1: funding these green new projects. You got other Republicans in
Speaker 1: big medicaid expansion states that don't want to come medicate.
Speaker 1: They're afraid of losing their seats. And we could go
Speaker 1: on and on and on, and of course the farms
Speaker 1: are protected. I have nothing against the American farmers, matter
Speaker 1: of fact, I have a profound respect for it. But
Speaker 1: you know what, you don't need corn subsidies. We don't
Speaker 1: need to be putting corn in our gas tanks, and
Speaker 1: yet there they are. Farmers are capable of growing other
Speaker 1: crops that are in demand. Corn isn't the only one.
Speaker 1: I'm sure it's far more complicated than that. But really
Speaker 1: the subsidy is there, and the support for corn growing
Speaker 1: is there because of the ethanol mandates. Let's just get
Speaker 1: rid of those, shall we. The demand for ethanol will
Speaker 1: go down. We won't have to put in our gas
Speaker 1: tank anymore. It's not like we're short on oil. Five
Speaker 1: sixteenth and five kr s talk station. I got New Hampshire,
Speaker 1: Gary and Jay on the line. You both are next
Speaker 1: in the order in which they receee, which means Gary's
Speaker 1: first Jay. Hang on, be right back after these brief words,
Speaker 1: fifty good Monday, Happy Monday to you. Try to make
Speaker 1: it so anyway, I gotta go over to the bones,
Speaker 1: says Promise. I got two callers on the line five
Speaker 1: one three seven two three talk in the order in
Speaker 1: which they're received, New Hampshire, Gary, welcome back to the
Speaker 1: Morning show.
Speaker 7: Good morning, Brian. Hey, I gotta tell you you didn't
Speaker 7: mention anything about the Supreme Court this week some Friday.
Speaker 7: I have to tell you, I am, I am disgusted
Speaker 7: with the Supreme Court, but I understand I wasn't shocked
Speaker 7: of what the Supreme Court did. And I think what
Speaker 7: we see here with the budget and the courts, they're
Speaker 7: just a bunch of political hacks. They get to their
Speaker 7: nng os, they give to their the military complex, they
Speaker 7: give to their teacher unions. They got the police and
Speaker 7: fire they've got, and I just can go on and
Speaker 7: on with the environmental groups, the farmers and every and
Speaker 7: even doge is plainly showing and it's only a fraction,
Speaker 7: only a fraction. What's going on is all the waste
Speaker 7: and the stealing, all out just flat out stealing and
Speaker 7: the political hackery of these judges. They're political acts didn't
Speaker 7: surprise me. Tens of millions of illegal immigrants came in,
Speaker 7: not US citizens, came in over the last four years.
Speaker 7: Now we're going to have to give each one due process.
Speaker 7: They're not US citizens. They're not titled to all the
Speaker 7: rights that we are entiled to as civilians. Or you're
Speaker 7: going to start handed all the illegal immigrants Second Amendment
Speaker 7: rights and let them take up arms as much as
Speaker 7: they want, you know, And then I see and no Napolitano,
Speaker 7: God bless his soul, but you know he's standing up
Speaker 7: for NS thirteen people that have it symbolized on their knuckles.
Speaker 7: And you know, you've got people like this that they're all, no,
Speaker 7: we've got to give them due process. We everything, mark
Speaker 7: my word, everything that's being done is going to be
Speaker 7: undone just as fast in four years, if not faster.
Speaker 7: Because you can see this thing coming to a wind
Speaker 7: own as we're going broke, you know you can. I
Speaker 7: can see it. Sorry, I'm.
Speaker 1: I was wondering how you saw this great undoing that
Speaker 1: your reference in what way, shape or form is that
Speaker 1: undoing going to occur? Because The problem is I see
Speaker 1: it now. The Supreme Court did say that these illegal
Speaker 1: immigrants were entitled to more due process than the administration
Speaker 1: allowed them, more than just twenty four hours notice. They
Speaker 1: have to have an opportunity to you know, have a
Speaker 1: hearing in court, you know, so there's some due process all.
Speaker 1: The court didn't articulate specifically how much. But it's not
Speaker 1: a full it's not they're not entitled to a full
Speaker 1: hearing with you know, judge and jury and all that.
Speaker 1: And so there's there's it's some sort.
Speaker 7: Of missed the state. Ryan, when they get that tangled
Speaker 7: up in court, your white back where you're started, right,
Speaker 7: because you know that's no matter what they do, that's
Speaker 7: going to get tangled up.
Speaker 1: But how does this great undoing, How does this great
Speaker 1: undoing occur that you're referring to, because we're talking about
Speaker 1: literally millions and millions of people that are entitled I
Speaker 1: guess some form of hearing. So how's that all going
Speaker 1: to get undone?
Speaker 7: Well, you know, tens of billions of people made it
Speaker 7: into this country and everybody he opened, they pore the
Speaker 7: gates down.
Speaker 1: No, I know how we got here? How do how
Speaker 1: does it? How does it get undone, you.
Speaker 7: Undo it the same way that it was done. No
Speaker 7: process in, no process, out, you're out, you're done.
Speaker 1: Well, that's going to be that's going to require defying
Speaker 1: the highest court in the land. So I can't see
Speaker 1: that actually happening unless there's a revolution exactly.
Speaker 7: That's why I see an undoing here.
Speaker 1: So you're talking about rep you're talking about some sort
Speaker 1: of internal revolution.
Speaker 7: No, no, no, I don't think it's going to be.
Speaker 7: I think what is going to happen is exactly what
Speaker 7: they wanted to happen. We're going to file bankruptcy.
Speaker 1: Oh well yeah, they're going to.
Speaker 7: Create a new constitutional crisis and they're going to create
Speaker 7: the new constitution and we're not going to have any
Speaker 7: say in it whatsoever.
Speaker 1: Well, that remains me seen. Now, there's a lot of
Speaker 1: people out there in the world that would take up
Speaker 1: arms and events something like that would happen. But yeah,
Speaker 1: we face an existential threat. It's our spending and it's
Speaker 1: our debt, and then we're we're not going to be
Speaker 1: able to fund literally any programs, including like, for example,
Speaker 1: the Social Security program. And you're gonna have thousands and
Speaker 1: tens of millions of seniors that aren't going to have
Speaker 1: a check coming in because well, we've wrecked the FIA currency. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's I mean, the writing's been on the wall for
Speaker 1: a long time. It's one of the reasons. Moodies was
Speaker 1: very gentle, but did point out that we have a
Speaker 1: massive spending problem, your credit ratings being downgraded. As scoch
Speaker 1: we're still one of the best in the entire world,
Speaker 1: and nonetheless here we find ourselves. It's a frightening position
Speaker 1: to be in. Get Jay. Let's get Jay in here.
Speaker 1: He's been kind enough the way, Jay, Welcome to the
Speaker 1: Morning Show.
Speaker 3: Hey, good morning, Brian.
Speaker 7: Hey.
Speaker 8: I wanted to point out that with this medicaid expansion,
Speaker 8: if you go back in time and I listened to
Speaker 8: your podcast from last week, you had an expert on
Speaker 8: he was talking about medicaid fraud. Yeah, which was excellent
Speaker 8: and it really explains Mike the line and the behaviors
Speaker 8: that we saw in Columbus where when he was running
Speaker 8: for governor he was against medicaid expansion. When Obama administration
Speaker 8: was dangling the carrot out there that we were the
Speaker 8: federal government was going to pay for just call it
Speaker 8: medicaid fraud. We're just going to lower the bar and
Speaker 8: let everybody in. And hey, I know you Red states,
Speaker 8: because let's just say there's thirteen Blue states and thirty
Speaker 8: seven Red states. Ish he told them, I understand you
Speaker 8: don't want to pay for it. We'll pay for it
Speaker 8: for the first three years, and then after that. Your
Speaker 8: guest said, they make nine dollars. I think it was like,
Speaker 8: for every ten dollars spent to get a healthy person
Speaker 8: on Medicaid, the state gets to keep ninety or something
Speaker 8: like that. Or the state makes nine dollars for every
Speaker 8: healthy person. So huge incentive to get healthy.
Speaker 9: Peape one there.
Speaker 8: So that explains why the wine went from being against.
Speaker 3: It to being for it. And I can blame the
Speaker 3: wine all day long.
Speaker 8: But evidently there was twenty seven Red states it took
Speaker 8: the deal. So if we said, what's the true root cause,
Speaker 8: the true root cause is the way that we currently
Speaker 8: have this government structured. The federal government down in DC
Speaker 8: is the parent and the states are acting like children.
Speaker 8: Or let me say a little more harshly, DC is
Speaker 8: the pimp and the states are the whore. And until
Speaker 8: we fix that, nothing's going to change. Because I understand
Speaker 8: the Red States are saying, Look, if we don't take
Speaker 8: this deal, these other states are going to take the deal.
Speaker 8: So we might as well line up what good subservient
Speaker 8: horrors and get at least our share, because if we don't,
Speaker 8: it doesn't help us at all. So to build on
Speaker 8: New Hampshire, Gary, would I would I go back to it?
Speaker 8: It can be a bloodlesh revolution. Let's do the national divorce.
Speaker 8: Can we not agree that the biggest national security threat
Speaker 8: to this country are the Blue States and the Democrat Party.
Speaker 8: And until we see that and we tell them, we'll
Speaker 8: be as close to you as we are to Canada
Speaker 8: and Mexico. But your bad ideas are wrecking this country.
Speaker 8: And we got to get where this makes states great again.
Speaker 8: Put a federal government back in its box if you can,
Speaker 8: and make it only for defense and trade as it
Speaker 8: was in the Constitution. Anything short of that is we
Speaker 8: are going to just bet and hope that people that
Speaker 8: have all the power and all of the control Washington,
Speaker 8: DC is no different in Beijing, and this country is
Speaker 8: no different in China, where there's a thousand people that
Speaker 8: have ninety nine percent of the power and control. That's
Speaker 8: what has to change. And until that changes it's just
Speaker 8: lip service. We're just asking humanity to do something humanity
Speaker 8: has never done or only done once, maybe at the
Speaker 8: beginning of this country. But we've got to get rid
Speaker 8: of the We have to do this amicable separation. There
Speaker 8: is no compromise between life and abortion. There is no
Speaker 8: compromise between huge government and small government, between freedom and tranny.
Speaker 7: And it's okay to have that conversation.
Speaker 8: It's almost seems taboo that we won't even go down
Speaker 8: that path.
Speaker 3: I don't hear the conversation anymore.
Speaker 1: Well, the devil's in the details on something like that, Jay,
Speaker 1: How would we get from here to there and what
Speaker 1: would it take? And that's where you're the big concerns
Speaker 1: come in because absence something like a depression or a
Speaker 1: major financial collapse with the Fiat currency or something like that,
Speaker 1: I don't hear the will or see the will from
Speaker 1: our elected officials. Appreciate the call, Jay, have a great
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Speaker 1: This week's marketers posted and it is a local story
Speaker 1: since it talks about City of Cincinnati's financial state. Truth
Speaker 1: in Accounting at the University of Denver published at twenty
Speaker 1: twenty five what they call Financial State of the City's
Speaker 1: report ranked seventy five of US cities according to their
Speaker 1: financial condition. You know where we show up sixty seven
Speaker 1: out of seventy five, earning us a D rating almost
Speaker 1: at the very bottom of the of the list. Columbus
Speaker 1: got a see they ranked at thirty seven. Cleveland got
Speaker 1: a B, coming in at number five. Gordon the Porta
Speaker 1: calculated the taxpayer burden for each Cincinnati taxpayer thirteen thousand,
Speaker 1: four hundred dollars per taxpayer, again sixty seventh, worst of
Speaker 1: the seventy five ranked accord to truth in accounting that burden,
Speaker 1: that tax burn a thirteen thousand, four hundred dollars. That's
Speaker 1: how much each Cincinnaia taxpayer would have to pay to
Speaker 1: eliminate Cincinnati's non capital debt, which would be on top
Speaker 1: of the taxes they've already paid this to the city.
Speaker 1: So how long has the city been run by Democrats?
Speaker 1: Too long answer from Joe Streker. You're right, Joe. You
Speaker 1: get a gold star for the right answer. H What
Speaker 1: started out as a normal traffic stop and Sharonville ended
Speaker 1: with a massive police chase happened Saturday evening. Routine stop
Speaker 1: for a fictitious license plate violation about five point thirty
Speaker 1: in the evening. According to Scharonville Police Department. Things got
Speaker 1: shaken up when the driver fled the scene, striking the
Speaker 1: officer's cruiser, and they ignored multiple orders to stop. Police
Speaker 1: pursued the suspect nearly thirty minutes before using stop sticks.
Speaker 1: Suspect identified as Alicia Joyce Bryan, who's fifty four from Hamilton, Ohio,
Speaker 1: charged with attempted to sell a police officer, felony, fer
Speaker 1: to comply with a police officer, drug paraphernalia, driving under suspension,
Speaker 1: and a fictitious license plate. Also had an standing warren
Speaker 1: from Butler County forty five year old Kevin Gabbard in
Speaker 1: the vehicle. He's been charged with tampering with evidence. Gabbart
Speaker 1: also had an open warrant through a high open parole authority.
Speaker 1: No injuries, thankfully, and it's all v vake Ramaswami. Attorney
Speaker 1: General David Josh spended his campaign for governor. Made the
Speaker 1: announcement Friday afternoon. This is one week after the High
Speaker 1: Republican Party overwhelmingly endorsed the vake Ramaswami. Yos wrote an
Speaker 1: email to his supporters, this is time to protect Ohio,
Speaker 1: not a time for family squabble I've spoken at length
Speaker 1: with many people whose advice and wisdom I respect, and
Speaker 1: having come to this decision quickly or easily, launched his
Speaker 1: campaign in January, describing himself as a principled conservative, and
Speaker 1: his campaign suspension announcements reported that Yos said the fight
Speaker 1: to become a house next governor was more than an
Speaker 1: uphill climb. Said is also apparent that a steep cli
Speaker 1: to the nomination for governor has become a vertical cliff.
Speaker 1: I do not wish to divide my political party in
Speaker 1: my state with a quixotic battle over the small differences
Speaker 1: between my vision and that of my opponent. I am
Speaker 1: simply not that important, wells, because his vision is his
Speaker 1: platform was really pretty much identical to be vag Ramaswami.
Speaker 1: And Ramaswami a widely popular guy, of course Cincinnati native.
Speaker 1: So I'm not quite sure if that's going to benefit
Speaker 1: the city of Cincinnati if he becomes elected governor, which
Speaker 1: appears likely at this juncture, but I think it's a
Speaker 1: step in the right direction. I do believe that David
Speaker 1: Yos made the right decision in backing out, basically seeing
Speaker 1: the writing on the wall five one, three, seven fifty
Speaker 1: eight hundred eight two three talk go with pound five
Speaker 1: fifty on at and T funds only have a few
Speaker 1: stack of stupid stories this morning, So welcome the opportunity
Speaker 1: to hear from a listener if you've got something you
Speaker 1: want to talk about. And we strongly recommend Gate of
Speaker 1: Heaven Cemetery for quiet reflection. And how about Memorial Day?
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Gate of Heaven gave me some information about their Memorial Day.
Speaker 1: A Monday, May twenty sixth Memorial Day presentation at a
Speaker 1: place called the Priest Mounted Gateway at Gate of Heaven
Speaker 1: Cemetery of Montgomery Road. The annual Memorial Day Fields Mass
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Speaker 1: Pudd and a happy Monday to you friend Thomas in
Speaker 1: fviting phone calls. I appreciate hearing from folks. And we're
Speaker 1: going to go to the phones right now. Five point
Speaker 1: three seven four nine, fifty five hundred, eight hundred and
Speaker 1: eighty twenty three Taco with fifty on AT and T phone.
Speaker 1: So before we get to the stack of stupid, let's
Speaker 1: see what Bobby's got this morning. Bobby, Happy Monday to you, sir.
Speaker 4: Happy Monday, my brother, Keep holding that flag of freedom
Speaker 4: up high, trying to do it, trying to do it.
Speaker 4: I want to go ahead and command the Republican Party
Speaker 4: in the state of Ohio, making an early endorsement or
Speaker 4: the fake yeah, because I feel and a lot of
Speaker 4: other people feel that there's nothing but a shot across
Speaker 4: the bow against Mike Dwan.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, this is the end of the old Guard
Speaker 1: with a vvake Ramaswamy over it was like a sixty
Speaker 1: to three vogue with the Ohio Republican Party. Don't quote
Speaker 1: me on that, but it was so overwhelming the support
Speaker 1: for Ramaswamy. I think it's definitely a shot at the
Speaker 1: Dwine and the old guard.
Speaker 4: Well Man also, But look at his reluctant Stephen putting
Speaker 4: somebody in the vice president's position right down here in Cincinnati,
Speaker 4: waved till the last minute, and.
Speaker 1: They're just fed up with they're tired of it.
Speaker 4: And while the times people don't want to have to
Speaker 4: step out on the bow of the ship to jump
Speaker 4: off and use their opinions against the governor, but it's time.
Speaker 4: It should have happened a long time ago.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think your comments along those lines are probably
Speaker 1: met with a lot of support among my listening audience.
Speaker 1: That's the general theme that the callers have revealed over
Speaker 1: the years during the Dwine administration. You can go back
Speaker 1: and fault him for all the COVID edicts and mandates
Speaker 1: and everything else that we had going on in the
Speaker 1: state of Ohio, obviously in star contrast to Florida, for example,
Speaker 1: which managed to come out just quite nicely without having
Speaker 1: to lock anything down. So yeah, there's a lot of
Speaker 1: reasons to be upset with the Wine and maybe we'll
Speaker 1: have some herding of cats under a new administration with
Speaker 1: the Vega Ramaswami. Because lord knows, Columbus is a real mystery.
Speaker 1: If you're a Republican or Republican leaning, you just wonder
Speaker 1: why they can't seem to get their act together and
Speaker 1: why they do some of the things that they do,
Speaker 1: like six hundred million dollars for the Cleveland Browns. Anyway,
Speaker 1: let's go to the stack of stupid and go to
Speaker 1: Los Angeles. Something's got to give. So we have a
Speaker 1: Los Angeles business owner found what they describe as a
Speaker 1: novel way to keep homeless people from camping near his building,
Speaker 1: playing an annoying children's song called baby Shark on a Loop. Now,
Speaker 1: I'm not sure if you've heard baby Shark, but once
Speaker 1: that gets in your head, it's an earworm that has
Speaker 1: a difficult time going away. It is annoying as hell.
Speaker 1: I even asked Joe Strecker if you had it around
Speaker 1: he could access it. He just looking. He goes, I'm
Speaker 1: not playing baby Shark. Court to one of the women
Speaker 1: who lives in the encampment next door to the building
Speaker 1: playing Baby Shark on a Loop. Sad this they played
Speaker 1: baby Shark all night long. They're doing everything they can
Speaker 1: to make us move or drive us crazy, but it's
Speaker 1: doing the last. It's driving people crazy. Well maybe that
Speaker 1: is the point. It drives you crazy and then you move.
Speaker 1: They started playing the song through a loudspeaker that was
Speaker 1: pointed directly directly at this encampment. I see a photograph
Speaker 1: of it, and I can't imagine a business staying open
Speaker 1: with this type of encampment right in the front, basically
Speaker 1: in the front door. She said it kept her and
Speaker 1: others up all night. She also called it ridiculous. We
Speaker 1: can't get any sleep, we can't get any housing, we
Speaker 1: can't eat, and now they're trying to drive us crazy
Speaker 1: with children's music. A guy down the street owns a
Speaker 1: barber shop called Styles Barber Lounge Shalom. Styles, interviewed by
Speaker 1: local news there, told the outlet that they aren't trying
Speaker 1: to be mean or insensitive to the homeless, but have
Speaker 1: businesses to run and are just trying to survive. Said
Speaker 1: it's not always it's not always about being kind, because
Speaker 1: when people are taking away from business and all the
Speaker 1: stores are going out of business, we're still here surviving,
Speaker 1: trying to put up for our family. Well, and those
Speaker 1: businesses what pay the tax dollars that are supposed to
Speaker 1: well provide you know, means and resources to get these
Speaker 1: people out of the homeless encampments. Who wins in this
Speaker 1: right when you think about Medicaid expansion, This whole, this
Speaker 1: whole system that we have is collapsing on itself. The
Speaker 1: ones who make money, the ones who create businesses, provide
Speaker 1: job opportunities, are shouldering the burden for the ever growing
Speaker 1: number of people who refuse to participate, who refuse to
Speaker 1: get jobs. I don't know what the solution is with
Speaker 1: the homeless crisis, but wow, the weight of it is
Speaker 1: becoming just an insurmountable challenge, and the businesses go out
Speaker 1: of business and the people flee and go to other states.
Speaker 1: It's a downward spiral out in California among other cities
Speaker 1: that are going down the same path. Forty five fifty
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Speaker 1: Coming up at five fifty to fifty five KR ceed
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Speaker 1: Money Money with Brian James at eight oh five and
Speaker 1: Tim Hester. Since a Native Air Force veteran, and he's
Speaker 1: promoting the PBS documentary Defying Death on the Atlantic. We'll
Speaker 1: get the details from Tim A A forty back over
Speaker 1: to the stack of stupid. Got another one, Joe, I
Speaker 1: don't get with teachers having sex with students anyway. This
Speaker 1: one Desota County, Mississippi high school teacher they're accused of
Speaker 1: making out with a student Gordon affidavit from the DeSoto
Speaker 1: County Sheriff's Office. Thirty one year old in Natalia Wright,
Speaker 1: another female teacher, former teacher Lewisburg High School, committed acts
Speaker 1: of licentious sexual desires with a child under the age
Speaker 1: of eighteen. She was a special education teacher at Louisbourg
Speaker 1: during the twenty twenty four to twenty five school year.
Speaker 1: While these happened or this happened, she was also the
Speaker 1: student's tutor in addition to being the student's teacher. Wright's
Speaker 1: husband allegedly obtained footage and audio recording of her admitting
Speaker 1: to kissing the student on multiple occasions while tutoring the child.
Speaker 1: Additional witnesses observed her kissing and making out with the
Speaker 1: student on multiple locations, which included the parking lot of
Speaker 1: a Taco Bell and the Longview Point Baptist Church. She
Speaker 1: resigned from the school beginning of April due to inappropriate
Speaker 1: contact with a victim, which included physical touching, communication, and
Speaker 1: driving the child to school in her personal vehicle multiple times.
Speaker 1: Arrested May twelfth at a two hundred thousand dollars bond,
Speaker 1: charged with fondling by person of position or trust.
Speaker 9: Period.
Speaker 1: The biggest douche of the universe, in all the galaxies,
Speaker 1: there's no bigger douche than you. You've reached the job,
Speaker 1: the pinnacle of douche dum good going doues. Your dreams
Speaker 1: have come true. And here's one of the stories. When
Speaker 1: you look at the mugshot, you think, yeah, that sounds
Speaker 1: about right. Briefly describing this woman, a mother, Ashley Pardo,
Speaker 1: facing criminal charges after authorities arrested her thirty three years old,
Speaker 1: charged with aiding in the commission of terrorism. She's got
Speaker 1: all kinds of face tattoos. She looks like she's got
Speaker 1: straight lines for eyebrows that have been tattooed on there
Speaker 1: and a giant nineteen ninety two tattoo on her neck
Speaker 1: among other neck tattoos. Okay, authority say the Pardo's middle
Speaker 1: school age son had expressed a desire to carry out,
Speaker 1: in their words, in the arrest rey board, acts of
Speaker 1: mass violence at his school. Officials alleged this woman bought
Speaker 1: the items knowing that they would be used for a crime.
Speaker 1: Please say the student, I know what. He arrived the
Speaker 1: Roads Middle School in San Antonio Monday outfit with a
Speaker 1: mass camouflage jacket and tactical plants or pants, but he
Speaker 1: soon left school swept for potential threats, and the student
Speaker 1: was later found off campus. Now facing terrorism charges, Pardo
Speaker 1: posted a thirty five dollar bonds release from jail. Boy
Speaker 1: was suspended last month after he allegedly researched the twenty
Speaker 1: nineteen christ Church mosque shooting on a school issued computer.
Speaker 1: Part of his son returned to school last week, which
Speaker 1: point officials implemented a safety plan for fear of potential violence. Apparently,
Speaker 1: she bought ammunition, magazines and the tactical gear the kid
Speaker 1: was wearing. We'll just go ahead and include her in
Speaker 1: the prior given awarded. Joe investigation underway after a Pennsylvania
Speaker 1: school district said a kindergarten student gave jello shots to classmates.
Speaker 1: Greater Johns School district said that a kindergarten student in
Speaker 1: the elementary school gave out quote alcohol in the form
Speaker 1: of small jello cups close quote to three hundreds other students.
Speaker 1: Superintendent said. One staff learn about the situation, immediate action
Speaker 1: was taken. Students taken to the nurse's office for evaluation,
Speaker 1: and out of an abundance of caution, EMS called to
Speaker 1: take the kids to a local hospital. Parents were notified
Speaker 1: and met first responders there at the hospital. Not clear
Speaker 1: how the student got the alcoholic jello cops, but the
Speaker 1: district said it's looking into it and cooperating with authorities
Speaker 1: I know. Stated said, we are currently a possession of
Speaker 1: the jello cups in the matter is under investigation. We
Speaker 1: are cooperating fully with local authorities to determine how the
Speaker 1: students came into possession of these items and to ensure
Speaker 1: the continued safety of our students and staff. Joe, you
Speaker 1: think the jello shots now up over in the faculty
Speaker 1: lounge not anymore. It really is kind of puzzling. How
Speaker 1: old is a kindergartener, Joe, isn't that like five years old?
Speaker 1: I bet mom and dad had a party over the
Speaker 1: weekend and the kid grabbed him up and threw him
Speaker 1: in his back. Went to school with us. Now you
Speaker 1: skeptical about that anyhow? Coming up off top of the
Speaker 1: air news play, more to talk about it, including the
Speaker 1: actual reality of what the hell's going on with the
Speaker 1: GOP tax plan. Oh, they've promised, they've promised, they aren't delivering. Also,
Speaker 1: Joe Biden's health at issue here, and I have a
Speaker 1: good friend of mine SYOP, former military SIOP, and so
Speaker 1: anything coming out like this, he always has something to
Speaker 1: say about it. This was a meme media cover up revealed,
Speaker 1: which is all what's going on about Biden and his
Speaker 1: failing and deteriorating cognitive state, which was well documented by
Speaker 1: folks like you and me because we could see with
Speaker 1: our own eyes and hear with our own ears that
Speaker 1: he was deteriorating. At the media lied and lied and lied.
Speaker 1: Everyone surrounding Biden lied and lied and lied. So that's
Speaker 1: really a story that's got some legs right now. So
Speaker 1: with that in mind, his comment was q the cancer announcement,
Speaker 1: in other words, operating as a distraction from the broadly
Speaker 1: reported information about the Biden cognitive cover up. Anyways, stick
Speaker 1: around more to talk about in six o'clock hour. You
Speaker 1: can feel free to call it love to hear from you.
Speaker 1: I'll be right back at the top of the hour.
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Speaker 1: Six six fifty five KR CEED Talk Station Brian Thomas here,
Speaker 1: which means, ever you want a happy Monday, and hoping
Speaker 1: you had a wonderful weekend. The weather was just oh
Speaker 1: so wonderful over the weekend. Five one, three, seven, four, nine, fifty,
Speaker 1: eight hundred eight two to three TALKO with Ton five
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Speaker 1: One moment, CJ, let me folks know what's coming up.
Speaker 1: Seven to twenty with Christopher Smithman every Monday at seven
Speaker 1: twenty with the former vice mayor of the City of Cincinnati.
Speaker 1: And the Smither vent eight oh five with Brian James
Speaker 1: Monday Monday on Moody's atitg grating, which I referenced in
Speaker 1: the last hour It dropped and the reason is we
Speaker 1: are on a terrible physical trajectory. Deficits keep getting bigger,
Speaker 1: and Republicans, even hammering out this big, beautiful bill can't
Speaker 1: find more than one and a half trillion dollars over
Speaker 1: ten years, while we rack up two trillion dollars in
Speaker 1: debt each and every year additional debt. It's just it's
Speaker 1: a downward spiral. There's nothing more that you can say
Speaker 1: about it. We'll talk about the starter home market in
Speaker 1: Cincinnati and big summer vacations apparently out of style, says
Speaker 1: Brian James, and then go to eight forty with Tim Hester.
Speaker 1: He's a Cincinni native and Air Force veteran. Thank you
Speaker 1: for your service, Tim. He's going to be promoting any
Speaker 1: PBS documentary defying death on the Atlantic, so we'll hear
Speaker 1: from Tim at eight forty CJ thanks for calling this morning.
Speaker 1: Happy Monday to you.
Speaker 11: Happy money to you as well.
Speaker 12: On this Biden health issue, it is really easy to
Speaker 12: come up with conspiracy theories because so many people lied
Speaker 12: within that administration and those who are around him.
Speaker 9: Yes, there was a speech.
Speaker 11: Given by him, I think it was in twenty twenty
Speaker 11: two or twenty twenty three where he did the whole
Speaker 11: moonshot for cancer, which is a great thing.
Speaker 3: But in the middle of that speech he says.
Speaker 11: Something that says there are millions of people like myself
Speaker 11: who have been diagnosed with cancer, and then the administration
Speaker 11: came out and said, oh, that is just Joe being Joe.
Speaker 1: And it was just a slip.
Speaker 9: The question is was that really a slip.
Speaker 11: Granted, a lot of people can get into stage four
Speaker 11: from prostate cancer because.
Speaker 3: Of screening, and they don't do the screenings.
Speaker 11: But this is the President of the United States who
Speaker 11: gets an annual physical and has a doctor on him
Speaker 11: twenty four hours a day, especially at his advanced age
Speaker 11: and his apparent a mental declinanted intake, you know, Sherlock
Speaker 11: Holmes ord Larry Holmes to figure out that he had
Speaker 11: some mental capacity issues, and so they had doctors on
Speaker 11: him constantly.
Speaker 12: If this administ if that administrations.
Speaker 11: Led about this, which they probably did, this, this is
Speaker 11: another reason why those people should be nowhere near power,
Speaker 11: whether it is dog catcher or the President of the
Speaker 11: United States.
Speaker 1: No offense to dog catchers. Didn't call looking for an argument.
Speaker 1: See Jay, I agree with you completely. Yeah, leaves everything
Speaker 1: go open to question mark. I mean, you know, Cash
Speaker 1: Mattel came out the other day they said that the
Speaker 1: FBI actually really legitimately ran a bait and switch in
Speaker 1: connection with the Hillary Clinton shenanigans. He put to the
Speaker 1: FBI's handing a Hillary Couldn't Email investigation as example of
Speaker 1: political bias and institutional failure, claiming senior officials within the
Speaker 1: Justice Department hijack their constitutional responsibilities, selectively declining which cases
Speaker 1: are deciding which cases to pursue. Said, apparently he's got
Speaker 1: a whole although the statute of limitations expired, he's got
Speaker 1: a whole room full of documents, and he's gonna let
Speaker 1: them out. So the good news, the good thing here
Speaker 1: is we're now to clean it up, meaning the FBI's reputation.
Speaker 1: You're about to see a wave of transparency. Just give
Speaker 1: us about two weeks. Hum he said, he referring to
Speaker 1: the crossfire hurricane cover up Donald Trump's ties to Russia
Speaker 1: and working with Congress to put out information surrounding it.
Speaker 1: He said, this is how vindictive and vicious the former
Speaker 1: leadership structure here was FBI. Not only did they bastardize
Speaker 1: the FISA process and led to the American people, they
Speaker 1: withheld and hid documentation and put it in rooms where
Speaker 1: people weren't supposed to look.
Speaker 13: Hum.
Speaker 1: Well, he had a whole lot more to say about
Speaker 1: that in his interview the other day with Maria Bartromo. So,
Speaker 1: but yeah, there's a problem right there. But then pivoting
Speaker 1: over to the whole Trump, the whole Biden cover up thing.
Speaker 1: There's a good op ed in the Wall Street Journal,
Speaker 1: a Reckoning for the Biden cover up, and they talk
Speaker 1: about all the politicians that lied, all the ones that
Speaker 1: surrounded him, pointing out that they were with him all
Speaker 1: of the time. And more and more informations coming out
Speaker 1: with these books that have been published than the most
Speaker 1: latest one, Original Sin President Biden's decline, its cover up,
Speaker 1: and his disastrous choice to run again, by none other
Speaker 1: than CNN's Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson of Axios. I
Speaker 1: guess they're trying to cover their tracks since they were
Speaker 1: some of the apologists for Biden during the period of
Speaker 1: time that we are own eyes and the journalists in
Speaker 1: Americans could see with their own eyes for years that
Speaker 1: Biden was going downhill, fast, stumbling, he following, He couldn't
Speaker 1: remember names, looked lost in public appearances, had to be
Speaker 1: let off stage. Remember the bunny rabbit. He'd wander off
Speaker 1: to one side. Your exit is on the other side,
Speaker 1: mister Biden. Here let's step this way. We all saw it,
Speaker 1: and of course that leads us to the whole idea
Speaker 1: of Joe Biden running for reelection. And it wasn't until
Speaker 1: that debate that the jig was up and they had
Speaker 1: to pull the plug on Biden metaphorically giving Democrats no
Speaker 1: opportunity to select who the nominee might be. Let's coronate
Speaker 1: Kamala Harris. That's what the cover up led to. That's
Speaker 1: what got done. Ronald Trump elected well, plus he ran
Speaker 1: on policies that a lot of the American people were hoping,
Speaker 1: like closing the border anyway. But focusing on the media,
Speaker 1: and it's worth reading the Bidens finility cover up is
Speaker 1: also a media reckoning. Whenever someone dared to point out
Speaker 1: that mister Biden wasn't up to the jobs, the praetorian
Speaker 1: media guard assembled to deny it. We could quote chapter
Speaker 1: in verse from many media sources, but one example worth
Speaker 1: signing is none of them. Mister Jake Tapper Grabian the
Speaker 1: TV clip service, has compiled a montage of Jake Tapper
Speaker 1: casting doubt on those who cast a doubt on mister
Speaker 1: Biden's mental fitness. Wall Street Jeneral reported in a detailed
Speaker 1: piece June fourth last year, that those who observed Biden
Speaker 1: in person were concerned about his decline. Mister Tapper quoted
Speaker 1: a White House dismissal of the story, including a sneer
Speaker 1: that the journal is owned by News Corp, which is
Speaker 1: run by the Murdochs, as if that rebutt of the story.
Speaker 1: He then interviewed a Democrat who dismissed it. A Democrat
Speaker 1: dismissed the journal's reporting. A more curious journalists would have
Speaker 1: explored it, explored rather if it were true, and maybe
Speaker 1: even done some of his own reporting. Only now does
Speaker 1: he tacitly admit that the journal was right. The cover
Speaker 1: up of mister Biden's mental decline will go down as
Speaker 1: one of the greatest scandals of modern politics. By refusing
Speaker 1: to admit what voters could so clearly see, Democrats denied
Speaker 1: their party in open primary once Biden imploded. They handed
Speaker 1: Kamala Harris the nomination without debate that mister Biden bowed
Speaker 1: out in twenty twenty three. Republicans might also have been
Speaker 1: more open to nominees other than mister Trump. Instead, Democrats
Speaker 1: turned into a turn to lawfair in attempt to disqualify Trump,
Speaker 1: which solidified his hold on the GOP voters. Democrats in
Speaker 1: the press are now appalled by mister Trump's second term.
Speaker 1: They would do better to think upon and seek contrition
Speaker 1: for their own role in making it possible. And I
Speaker 1: guess I have to ask out loud, does anybody, I mean,
Speaker 1: can you really legitimately trust the mainstream media after all
Speaker 1: of the lies I mean, in this is just one
Speaker 1: area of the lies. We regularly joke about the talking points.
Speaker 1: I went through a little montage on my own last
Speaker 1: week about the new talking points. We're looking forward. We're
Speaker 1: just looking forward. We're not going to talk about the past.
Speaker 1: Oh in the context of this, Well, that's what the
Speaker 1: mainstream media is parroting, and the Democrats are parroting it
Speaker 1: as well. But you know, you can get back to
Speaker 1: the Hunter Biden laptop story. New York Post broke that
Speaker 1: and they were ridiculed for breaking it. Out comes the
Speaker 1: fifty one you know, former intelligence agents signing onto the
Speaker 1: letter suggesting it looked like Russian collusion or Russian interference
Speaker 1: or Russian propaganda, whatever the words were they used, yes,
Speaker 1: in advance of the election, and that was parroted all
Speaker 1: over the media. They wouldn't even acknowledge that it was
Speaker 1: a possibility the Biden laptop was or the hunterapp was real.
Speaker 1: And yet we now find out later the FBI knew
Speaker 1: it was real, and they had known about it for
Speaker 1: a long time, meaning that letter was legitimately outright fabrication lie,
Speaker 1: a lie perpetuated by the mainstream media. So your government
Speaker 1: lies to you again. The Biden administration and the prior
Speaker 1: administration lied to you and perpetuating this fabrication. They wanted
Speaker 1: Trump out. They wanted Trump to lose. Every lettered agency
Speaker 1: in DC wanted Trump to lose. And now you got
Speaker 1: coll me with the eighty eighty six forty seven. They're
Speaker 1: still at it writing stuff. Well, Sai, Jim, get you
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Speaker 1: Always good to hear from you.
Speaker 7: Good morning, Brian Thomas. How are you some warning? Sir?
Speaker 1: I'm doing okay, I guess good luck tomorrow tomorrow.
Speaker 14: Don't you having your your eye done tomorrow?
Speaker 2: Nah?
Speaker 1: I haven't it done this afternoon. I have to take
Speaker 1: tomorrow off because last time I am I'm getting to
Speaker 1: glau coma.
Speaker 9: Sir.
Speaker 1: It's not a surgery. They just blast a bunch of
Speaker 1: holes with a laser in your eye to help her
Speaker 1: lieve the pressure. So I had my right eye done.
Speaker 1: It's been like two months now. But when I woke
Speaker 1: up the next day, I couldn't read. It was so
Speaker 1: blurry that I was struggling to read. So I anticipate
Speaker 1: that's going to be the case. So I've taken tomorrow
Speaker 1: off out of an abundance of precaution. Gary Jeff Walker
Speaker 1: is going to cover for me in the morning.
Speaker 14: Gotta do what you gotta do, buddy.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I know. Hey, it runs with the family. Yeah,
Speaker 1: ot coma, I know it just it runs in the family.
Speaker 1: And you know, folks out there are pro tip see
Speaker 1: an eye doctor regularly and have your pressure check because
Speaker 1: you can end up going blind if you have glaucoma,
Speaker 1: it goes undiagnosed and you're not placed on medication or
Speaker 1: otherwise have this laser procedure. Yeah, you run the risk
Speaker 1: of blindness. So you know, it's not something that's impossible
Speaker 1: to cure or solve, but you got to know you've
Speaker 1: got a problem ahead of time to deal with it.
Speaker 1: So we'll pro tip there.
Speaker 7: And may can lead to other things.
Speaker 14: But on Biden, you know, I don't rarely talk I
Speaker 14: do rarely talk about my health issues, especially on radio.
Speaker 14: But seven years ago, when I retired and found out
Speaker 14: that I had the evil see I can, I can
Speaker 14: really kind of feel sorry for him because when I
Speaker 14: had I didn't know what I had and I got tested.
Speaker 14: But what happened was they told me I had stage
Speaker 14: four prostate cancer, and I didn't know what the hell
Speaker 14: I was. So I came home and found out that
Speaker 14: stage four is not a death wish immediately and then
Speaker 14: within the next month it traveled to the bones. So
Speaker 14: this must be a notoriously bad thing that happens. And
Speaker 14: that's what my doctor told me. To the one from OHC.
Speaker 14: There's the plug that it came in and then travels out.
Speaker 14: So the prostate right now is in basically remission. It's
Speaker 14: not progressing, but the bones. That's this one thing because
Speaker 14: of all the bones in your body. If not, you're
Speaker 14: a jellyfish. And it's not a fun thing to go through.
Speaker 14: And I really feel sympathy for Biden getting well, getting
Speaker 14: back to the health screening. He only has a unless
Speaker 14: something that comes up. He only has a screening once
Speaker 14: a year, and you know, that's all they usually do,
Speaker 14: and with mine it was about every six weeks to
Speaker 14: twelve weeks, and that's when they found out that it
Speaker 14: traveled to the bones.
Speaker 7: So he can be tested in January.
Speaker 14: It can hit him in February and they might not
Speaker 14: find to find out about it for a ten months,
Speaker 14: so as.
Speaker 7: A cover up, they probably did.
Speaker 14: But I give him the benefit of a doubt on
Speaker 14: the progression of this and we'll just see what happens.
Speaker 1: You talk about the screen of the PSA test.
Speaker 14: Yeah, the PSA yeah, yeah, and plus the one where
Speaker 14: they knock you out and actually take samples if they
Speaker 14: feel that there's something wrong with it. But the bone
Speaker 14: cancer doesn't show up on the PSA the way it
Speaker 14: does for the prostate cancer. It's a whole different, whole
Speaker 14: different ballgame.
Speaker 1: That go through and the bone. The bone cancer is painful,
Speaker 1: if I understand Mike prior conversation.
Speaker 14: Fun for you, it's not fun. It makes you feel
Speaker 14: older than what you really are. I mean the pain
Speaker 14: that goes through different parts of the body. It's it's
Speaker 14: almost like you you did what Joe did years ago,
Speaker 14: was running a marathon. You feel that way every day
Speaker 14: when you get up, and you hate to say that
Speaker 14: you're taking pain meds because that's.
Speaker 4: What it is.
Speaker 7: But you got to tell you got to do what
Speaker 7: you got to do.
Speaker 14: And again with the OHC doctors, they treat you pretty well.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 8: I haven't had any issues so far, but I just
Speaker 8: figured I thought that in relating to the fact that
Speaker 8: you know, he's had this and it's progressing. He might
Speaker 8: he might still live well, not mentally, but he still
Speaker 8: might live for two or three years or more.
Speaker 1: Well. The reporting that I read about this particular aggressive
Speaker 1: form of prostate cancer, it says five years survival rate
Speaker 1: of thirty to forty percent.
Speaker 14: Yeah, so I mean it's not like pain Graddy cancer.
Speaker 1: No, no, no, that's a short term window right there.
Speaker 1: And you know, let's face it, you and I can
Speaker 1: agree Westside Jim. Cancer sucks, sucks, and we wouldn't.
Speaker 7: Find one more thing.
Speaker 14: This morning's paper on the front page, the enquire Man
Speaker 14: Charged and Deputy's death finds fame and support. That totally
Speaker 14: disgusted me. I mean to have that, and I know
Speaker 14: that they're just reporting news.
Speaker 7: But this just really pisses me off.
Speaker 14: If I can use that word on the air, which
Speaker 14: I just did. You did, fame and fame and support,
Speaker 14: I mean those people that support this guy and make
Speaker 14: him look famous and donate to his cause. I noticed
Speaker 14: a place in hell for them.
Speaker 1: Also. Yeah, I have to agree with you on that,
Speaker 1: but the world's filled with crazy people, and the Internet
Speaker 1: allows each and every one of those crazies to get
Speaker 1: together and sort of echo chamber each other and make
Speaker 1: it seem like what they are doing is a good,
Speaker 1: decent and right thing to do. You're always going to
Speaker 1: find someone who's sympathetic to your insanity these days. So
Speaker 1: thanks for thank you, and God bless you.
Speaker 3: Jim.
Speaker 1: You're always in my prayers. You always are. Eight six
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Speaker 1: Uh excuse me over the local stories since I please
Speaker 1: investigate after a man got shot inside of a vehicle
Speaker 1: having a bond Hill early Saturday, nineteen hundred block of
Speaker 1: Langdon Farm Drive about one twenty in the morning. Twenty
Speaker 1: nine year old man undergoing treatment for the gunshot wound
Speaker 1: to his left calf. He's at University since medical Center.
Speaker 1: According to Captain Stephen Bauer at the police He's expected
Speaker 1: to recover, which is good. Victim told police he didn't
Speaker 1: know why they targeted him and could not provide a
Speaker 1: description of the shooter, according to the captain. Let us
Speaker 1: see human ring remains found in Claremont County last month
Speaker 1: identified as a Felicity man who was reported missing more
Speaker 1: than three years ago. Coroner's Office at remains were found
Speaker 1: in fifteen hundred block of Barger Road in Washington Township
Speaker 1: April nineteenth. DNA testing results confirmed the identity of the
Speaker 1: remains Roger Schantz. Bruce family reported him missing in January
Speaker 1: of twenty twenty two. During an investigation to Bruce's death,
Speaker 1: Clama County Sheriff's Office said Washington Township resident Zachary Scott
Speaker 1: called nine one one a couple of days before Bruce
Speaker 1: was reported missing, claiming he had overdosed on drugs. And
Speaker 1: was unresponsive in a vehicle. Scott said he administered narcan
Speaker 1: than disconnected the call on a callback, Scott told dispatches
Speaker 1: Bruce drove away after regaining consciousness. Detective searched the area
Speaker 1: tried to find the vehicle Scott describe it never located
Speaker 1: Scott or Bruce. When detectives interviewed Scott one day later,
Speaker 1: they said he changed his story. Clarimont County Grand Jury
Speaker 1: indicted him on one kind of involuntary manslaughtered, gross abuse
Speaker 1: of a corpse, corrupting another with drugs, and tampering with
Speaker 1: evidence in Bruce's death. Now his remains have been recovered.
Speaker 1: According to Claimont County corner Brian Treon, this identification brings
Speaker 1: a measure of closure to a tragic and prolonged period
Speaker 1: of uncertain Their thoughts are again with Bruce's family and
Speaker 1: as they navigate this difficult time. Sheriff's office still investigating
Speaker 1: the death. Anybody with information please call the Investigative Investigations
Speaker 1: Unit JEEZ Greater since they bus service, they say making
Speaker 1: a significant advancement the introduction of bus rapid transit system.
Speaker 1: They say the line Cincinnati with approximately forty other cities.
Speaker 1: Who've rolled out BRT systems which are designed to enhance
Speaker 1: the efficiency of bus travel, and I underscored this without
Speaker 1: the need for tracks or permanent infrastructure. Now hold that
Speaker 1: thought for a minute. Chris Hauser, WKRC and MSN dot
Speaker 1: Com article. According to Brad Mason, Metro's director of Communications,
Speaker 1: they aim to improve the speed and efficiency of bus service.
Speaker 1: My favorite feature of this is the traffic signal priority,
Speaker 1: where if a bus is coming to a traffic light,
Speaker 1: the light knows that the bus is coming and it
Speaker 1: will give priority to the bus. Cities like Columbus and Cleveland,
Speaker 1: Indianapolis have experienced economic development, he said. With this BRT system,
Speaker 1: he said, they're seeing economic development from it happen. They're
Speaker 1: seeing people move through their region differently than they used to,
Speaker 1: so it's really expanding transportation options for people within the region.
Speaker 1: Mason said Metro is experiencing ridership growth currently at one
Speaker 1: hundred ten percent of the pre pandemic level, attributing this
Speaker 1: to reinventing Metro program the shifting perceptions of bus transit
Speaker 1: beyond commuting to work or school. Now here's why I
Speaker 1: said underscore that point about without the need for tracks
Speaker 1: or permanent infrastructure. Article concludes by saying construction on the
Speaker 1: first BRT route along Renting Road is slated to begin
Speaker 1: next year, with an expected opening in twenty twenty seven,
Speaker 1: and they say the Hamilton Avenue cord Or anticipated to
Speaker 1: begin service the following year, though the design of bus
Speaker 1: only lanes is still underway, So maybe construction means bus
Speaker 1: only lanes. I don't know. But if it's a bus
Speaker 1: I don't understand why you would need construction unless they
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Speaker 1: Sex forty here at fifty about KRCD talk station, Happy Monday,
Speaker 1: Christopher Smith, then at seven to twenty every Monday for
Speaker 1: the Smith Event. Love hearing from you five one, three,
Speaker 1: two to three talk. Let's hear what Cleveland Owl's got
Speaker 1: going on, Cleveland Owl, thanks for calling this morning.
Speaker 13: A good morning, and just wanted to let you know
Speaker 13: that the BRT does require a significant change in the
Speaker 13: configuration of whatever street the BRT is being instituted. Cleveland
Speaker 13: did this in the early two thousands with Euclid Avenue.
Speaker 13: Euclid used to be the Avenue of Millionaires and for years.
Speaker 1: It had good on down.
Speaker 13: The tubes as far as the appearance and the safety
Speaker 13: between downtown and the University Circle, and they instituted a BRT.
Speaker 13: It took him about four years to build the special
Speaker 13: lanes and the bus stops for the buses to be
Speaker 13: able to institute what's called the Health Line that connects
Speaker 13: downtown to both Cleveland Clinic and University hospitals. And it
Speaker 13: really has turned the street around one hundred and eighty degrees.
Speaker 13: It went from being a blight to an area of
Speaker 13: significant economic and has returns to its former not the
Speaker 13: heights of glory of when the millionaires. Yeah, the Guild
Speaker 13: of the date's correct, but it has transformed the east
Speaker 13: side between downtown and University Circle significantly.
Speaker 1: Well that's great. I listen, you know, I always kind
Speaker 1: of it's cynical and skeptical that anything the City of
Speaker 1: Cincinnati does by way of trying to transform itself is
Speaker 1: gonna work. You know, I give you the street car,
Speaker 1: but and I imagine the traffic light sensors is part
Speaker 1: of the construction process that the bus can communicate with
Speaker 1: the traffic lights. And I understand the need for bus stops.
Speaker 1: But I'm happy here Cleveland, al that it's done. Wonders
Speaker 1: for that community. So we'll keep our fingers crossed it
Speaker 1: they don't screw it up down here. Al all right,
Speaker 1: you have a good well, thanks for the call man enlightening.
Speaker 1: It was all right, okay. And here I got a
Speaker 1: thought question for you, Donald Trump on his exec or
Speaker 1: his truth media account. Walmart should stop trying to blame
Speaker 1: tariffs is the reason for raising prices throughout the chain.
Speaker 1: Walmart made billions of dollars last year, far more than
Speaker 1: expected between Walmart and China. They should eat the tariffs
Speaker 1: all in caps and not charge the valued customers all
Speaker 1: in caps anything. I'll be watching, and so will your customers.
Speaker 14: Now.
Speaker 1: When I first saw that, I was like, wait a second,
Speaker 1: price controls, you're demanding they eat something? I mean, they
Speaker 1: compete out in the open world. If they raise their prices,
Speaker 1: somebody may choose to go to someplace else. This is
Speaker 1: a Walmart decision, but on the heels of but previously saying,
Speaker 1: after causing catastrophic inflation, Comrade common Law announced that she
Speaker 1: wants to institute socialist price controls. Her plan is very
Speaker 1: dangerous because it may sound good politically. This is communist,
Speaker 1: this is Marxist, this is fascist. So how can you
Speaker 1: reconcile those two points? And the profit margin at Walmart?
Speaker 1: You know, say what you want about Walmart. They are
Speaker 1: not centers of fat profit margins. Wall Street Journal reporting
Speaker 1: it's three percent, actually below three percent, pointing out there's
Speaker 1: not a whole lot of resumed room to absorb higher
Speaker 1: costs in the tariffs. And then they point to the competition,
Speaker 1: because of course Walmart's got competition, and one of the
Speaker 1: things that made it so successful is that it's well
Speaker 1: comparatively lower prices over the years. That's what built the
Speaker 1: empire quantit large quantity of small profit margins. So now
Speaker 1: Donald Trump's telling Walmart how to run its business, and
Speaker 1: in a pretty bold statement too, I will be watching,
Speaker 1: and so you're, yeah, let the customers decide. I just
Speaker 1: found it impossible to reconcile that, and it doesn't sound
Speaker 1: like a very conservative thing to do. I just think,
Speaker 1: you know, it's the reality is is what everyone who
Speaker 1: pointed out tariffs will do. It ends up raising the
Speaker 1: prices on things. Now, whether we have a good outcome
Speaker 1: in the final analysis from the tariffs or a bad outcome,
Speaker 1: I'm willing to wait around and find out, because there
Speaker 1: they are. Nobody consulted Brian tom before the tariffs went on,
Speaker 1: and he did promise them campaign pledge he was going
Speaker 1: to put impose tariffs. So we're getting what we voted
Speaker 1: for in that regard. And he's already made some headway
Speaker 1: with various countries negotiating deals to eliminate the tariffs or
Speaker 1: otherwise come up with something that's palatable to both countries
Speaker 1: China for one. He's negotiating with China with the with
Speaker 1: the tariff pause. So it's playing out and I've seen
Speaker 1: other articles talking about, well, the Trump tariffs aren't bearing
Speaker 1: fruit in the form of additional investments in business, and
Speaker 1: how quickly do you think you can build a giant factory?
Speaker 1: You know, the decision to build the factory is one thing,
Speaker 1: but it actually starting and starting to employ construction workers
Speaker 1: and ultimately workers who will be working at that any
Speaker 1: given facility. That does take some time. So people looking
Speaker 1: for instant gratification quite often disappointed. And I'm still got
Speaker 1: my popcorn out waiting to see where tariffs go. But
Speaker 1: I thought a little bit, I don't know what the
Speaker 1: word is ridiculous that he would demand the Walmart not
Speaker 1: raise its prices. Does seem have been inconsistent six forty six.
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Speaker 1: I'm off tomorrow, Gary Jeff Walker's covering former. I'm getting
Speaker 1: my glaucoma laser blast this afternoon. So last time I
Speaker 1: did that, he had a difficult time reading with the
Speaker 1: eye that got blasted. So since I do read for
Speaker 1: a living, I'm gonna take tomorrow if out an abundance
Speaker 1: of cautions. So Gary Jeff, thank you for covering for
Speaker 1: me tomorrow morning. I thought this was a joke, but
Speaker 1: apparently it's not. And I got a tremendous amount of
Speaker 1: respect for High Republican Warren Davidson. He's a good man,
Speaker 1: but I did get a chuckle out of this. He
Speaker 1: introduced legislation to direct the National Institutes of Help to
Speaker 1: investigate the psychological and social roots of Trump Derangement syndrome,
Speaker 1: presented the Trump Derangent Syndrome Research Act of twenty twenty five,
Speaker 1: which it's reported, is intended to shed a light on
Speaker 1: what has been a serious cultural affliction, described as an intense,
Speaker 1: irrational hysteria triggered by the mention of Donald Trump's name.
Speaker 1: The mere mentioned TDS become a catch all for unhinged
Speaker 1: reactions of his critics, whether it comes from a form
Speaker 1: of spittle flecked blue hair rants, protest effigies, or social
Speaker 1: media meltdowns. Props to Stephen Watson overt Modernity News for
Speaker 1: that verbage, but it is a real thing. Apparently co
Speaker 1: sponsored by Alabama Representative Barrymore, Apparently, this research will look
Speaker 1: to explain why leftists lose their collective minds over Donald Trump.
Speaker 1: Legislation identifies teds as quote the acute onset of paranoia
Speaker 1: in otherwise normal persons reacting to Trump's policies, presidency, or
Speaker 1: even very existence, manifesting in quote verbal expressions of intense
Speaker 1: hostility close quote and even quote overt acts of aggression
Speaker 1: and violence close quote against his supporters. Let's explain here
Speaker 1: the evil points the real world consequences. For example, the
Speaker 1: two assassination attempts on Trump. Davidson in a statement, this
Speaker 1: isn't just about hurt feelings. TDS has divided families, fueled
Speaker 1: nationwide violence, and turned dinner parties into screaming matches. The
Speaker 1: NIH needs to study this so we can find solutions. Well,
Speaker 1: I think the problem is primarily one of the Internet
Speaker 1: and social media and the echo chamber that people find
Speaker 1: themselves in. I mean, if you got one crazy person
Speaker 1: screaming about Donald Trump's going to end the world, there
Speaker 1: are an other crazy, crazy people out there in the
Speaker 1: world who might share that, and then they run into
Speaker 1: each other and they hang out together and feed this
Speaker 1: this this, well, we'll call it TDS. And how many
Speaker 1: and you know, this is a reflection of how many
Speaker 1: years that evil orange man has been ingrained into the
Speaker 1: hearts and minds of so many people via the mainstream media,
Speaker 1: who we find out has been lying to us over
Speaker 1: and over and over and over again about a variety
Speaker 1: of topics. But do we really need to pay for
Speaker 1: the NIH to study this. Apparently they tried this in Minnesota.
Speaker 1: March of this year, five Minnesota state Republicans pushed the
Speaker 1: build to classify TDS as a mental illness in the state,
Speaker 1: defining it as quote Trump induced general hysteria close quote.
Speaker 1: The effort didn't work. Democrat has called it possibly the
Speaker 1: worst bill in Minnesota history and an affront to speech.
Speaker 1: Now Warren Davidson bill apparently that takes a different look
Speaker 1: at it, framing TDS as a public health issue and
Speaker 1: worthy of scrutiny by the NIH, and exists calling for
Speaker 1: reallocating existing NIH funds i e. Note, New taxpayer dollars
Speaker 1: away from what Davison described as ludicrous studies like giving
Speaker 1: meth to cats, towards something relevant to everyday Americans. It
Speaker 1: also tasked the NIH wood probing the media's role in
Speaker 1: amplifying this syndrome, analyzing its impact on political polarization, and
Speaker 1: hunting for patient zero of the phenomenon. I'd like to
Speaker 1: have Congress and Davidson on to see if this is
Speaker 1: he's if he's really serious about this, or this is
Speaker 1: just one of those legislations to illustrate something and make
Speaker 1: a point rather than actually getting it passed, and since
Speaker 1: it's not part of the reconciliation process, he's going to
Speaker 1: have to get a sizeable number of Democrats that go
Speaker 1: along with it. Symbolic probably six poin fifty five fifty
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Speaker 1: Christopher smith AMU at seven twenty. I sure hope you
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Speaker 1: to be wishing everybody a happy Monday. I hope you
Speaker 1: had a wonderful weekend. In finding phone calls, we have
Speaker 1: time before Christopher Smithman joins a program at seven to
Speaker 1: twenty for the Smith Event. Fast forward an hour Monday
Speaker 1: Monday with Brian James Moody's credit rating. UH Finally Moody's
Speaker 1: got around dropping our credit rating here in the United
Speaker 1: States with good reason. Starter home market in the Cincinnati
Speaker 1: we'll talk about that with Brian and apparently big summer
Speaker 1: vacations are out of style. It can only imagine why
Speaker 1: that might be the case. Then we go to eight
Speaker 1: forty Tim Hester, who's a Cincinni native and Air Force
Speaker 1: veteran served in a rock. Thank you, Tim for your
Speaker 1: service to our country. There's a PBS documentary that's coming
Speaker 1: to town, Defying Death on the Atlantic, which is a
Speaker 1: really kind of wild story. If you asked me to
Speaker 1: sign up for a three thousand mile ocean rowing race,
Speaker 1: I would be a definite no on that. But the
Speaker 1: documentary is the story of a four man rowing team
Speaker 1: that participated in that event. The World's Toughest row is
Speaker 1: what that race is called. Air Force veteran the team
Speaker 1: they call themselves Team Fight or Oar Die. Twenty twenty
Speaker 1: two race got hit by a thirty foot swell, a
Speaker 1: boat capsize and they were left stranded eight hundred miles
Speaker 1: from the nearest land. So that's it tells the story
Speaker 1: of that. So we'll hear about the details on that
Speaker 1: from Tim at eight forty back over to you know,
Speaker 1: the first story we're going to be talking about with
Speaker 1: Monday mondays Brian James. The fact that Moody's downgraded our
Speaker 1: credit rating. The reason we are spending ourselves into oblivion.
Speaker 1: It's our debt. It keeps growing and growing and growing.
Speaker 1: And sadly, the GOP big beautiful bill it passed out
Speaker 1: of the House Budget Committee apparently does little to do
Speaker 1: that does not cut the deficit at really at all.
Speaker 1: In fact, it makes it bigger. Current proposal will increase
Speaker 1: projected budget deficits by nearly three trillion dollars through twenty
Speaker 1: thirty four, locking in tax cuts and spending increases that
Speaker 1: outweigh reductions and spending on Medicaid nutrition assistance. Now there's
Speaker 1: a bunch of stumbling blocks going on, and they remain.
Speaker 1: Now this did get advanced out of committee. The four
Speaker 1: Republican holdouts, the fiscally responsible for just voted present, so
Speaker 1: that it was seventeen to sixteen speakers. That he expects
Speaker 1: they have productions reductive discussions with various factions of the House,
Speaker 1: because there are moderate factions, so called moderate Republicans, who
Speaker 1: are all in favor of the big spending that has
Speaker 1: been implemented for a long time. They wanted to continue us,
Speaker 1: notably in the areas of Medicaid and the Green New
Speaker 1: Deal crap from the so called Inflation Reduction Act. It's
Speaker 1: in my state. My state's going to benefit from it,
Speaker 1: so I want that project to remain. Anyway, the four
Speaker 1: people that I mentioned, the fiscal hawks, cratered the whole
Speaker 1: thing on Friday because of the twenty twenty nine kick
Speaker 1: in date for work requirement for Medicaid. That was one
Speaker 1: of them. Why is it so far down the road?
Speaker 1: Of course, they're all worried about the work requirement would
Speaker 1: be removed sometime between now and then with follow up
Speaker 1: legislation or action. Green energy subsidies also a subject matter
Speaker 1: of their concern because again these so called moderate Republicans
Speaker 1: that keep pushing to keep those green energy subsidies in place.
Speaker 1: So they say, lawmakers have signal that some of the
Speaker 1: changes that are being pressed on by these conservatives will
Speaker 1: be introduced as amendments in the House Rules Committee, so
Speaker 1: they're not in this current framework that was voted on
Speaker 1: last night. Chip Roy among the fiscal Hawks, along with
Speaker 1: Ralph Norman Roy from Texas Norman from South Carolina. They're
Speaker 1: also in the Rules Committee where these amendments will be introduced. Now,
Speaker 1: just because you're going to introduce some amendment the same,
Speaker 1: you know, numerical realities exist. If you've got a bunch
Speaker 1: of moderate Republicans going along with the Democrats, they might
Speaker 1: vote noah any given amendment to help write the ship
Speaker 1: of fiscal disaster that this bill continues, they say it
Speaker 1: on the bill will now move. Apparently they did get
Speaker 1: somerect some concessions, at least I get this impression from
Speaker 1: Roy's statement. He said tonight, after a great deal of
Speaker 1: work and engagement over the weekend, the Budget Committee advanced
Speaker 1: a reconciliation bill that lays the foundation for much needed
Speaker 1: tax really border secured, important spending reductions and reforms. Importantly,
Speaker 1: the bill will now move Medicaid work requirements forward and
Speaker 1: reduces the availability of future subsidies under the Green New Scan.
Speaker 1: That's all the details that were provided. But since some
Speaker 1: of these I guess, Fox News reporting that they got
Speaker 1: assurances about these I guess amendments being introduced in the
Speaker 1: Rules Committee in writing, but that doesn't mean that they're
Speaker 1: going to be included in the ultimate Big beautiful bill.
Speaker 1: House Committee passed the framework earlier this year with instructions
Speaker 1: to these various committees to get Trump's agenda in line
Speaker 1: and legislated. Then the House committees began crafting their policies,
Speaker 1: which is how you end up with them being packed
Speaker 1: in together into this massive bill that they have to
Speaker 1: pass by reconciliation. So reconciliation requires the subject matter to
Speaker 1: be limited to federal spending, tax and the national debt.
Speaker 1: A golden opportunity to pairback are spending. It seems to
Speaker 1: me though it's being squandered. Now what stick? What are
Speaker 1: the sticking points? Most notably, the salt cap is one
Speaker 1: of them. You got blue states and you have Republicans
Speaker 1: in blue states where the taxation rate is off the
Speaker 1: charts now back in twenty seventeen or the Trump tax cuts,
Speaker 1: they capped that deducting interest and local taxes at ten
Speaker 1: thousand dollars. So naturally in a state the taxes the
Speaker 1: hell out of people New York, New Jersey, California, and
Speaker 1: the Republicans are there they want the salt tax cap
Speaker 1: to be increased, and substantially feeding the fire of the
Speaker 1: Democrats argument that these are all about protecting the wealthy.
Speaker 1: Members of the Salt Caucus have floated a sixty two
Speaker 1: thousand dollars cap for single filers and one hundred and
Speaker 1: twenty four thousand cap for joint filers as it's currently drafted,
Speaker 1: I have read that hasn't been confirmed. They raised it
Speaker 1: to thirty thousand dollars for individe jewels making four hundred
Speaker 1: thousand or less, and then decreasing the cab for those
Speaker 1: who exceed the income ceiling. Now who among us has
Speaker 1: sixty two to one hundred and twenty four thousand dollars
Speaker 1: worth of deductions to tack on in your federal filing?
Speaker 1: And most notably, the Salt cabs primarily benefit wealthier filers
Speaker 1: and does nothing more than subsidized Blue states, removing any
Speaker 1: incentive for them to lower their own tax burdens. That's
Speaker 1: the solution to it, Blue States, Quit taxing the hell
Speaker 1: out of your citizenry. Lower those taxes. They don't have
Speaker 1: to worry about. Where the salt tax are cut is
Speaker 1: And why should we hear no hire anybody else out
Speaker 1: in the United States be subsidizing these folks, giving them
Speaker 1: a write off for their state taxes. Of course, the
Speaker 1: fiscally responsible and conservatives of pushing GOP leaders to speed
Speaker 1: up the start date for the work requirement for Medicaid
Speaker 1: as written, or at least up until yes yesterday, may
Speaker 1: have changed based upon what chip Roy had to say.
Speaker 1: The work requirement kicks in in twenty twenty nine, a
Speaker 1: forty year delay. That provision requires childless adults age nineteen
Speaker 1: to sixty four years old to prove that they work,
Speaker 1: go to school, or volunteer eighty hours a month. It's
Speaker 1: a pretty small ass considering the typical work week for
Speaker 1: the regular Joe out in the world or Jane as
Speaker 1: the case may be forty hours a week, So eighty
Speaker 1: hours for an entire month, and you can go to school,
Speaker 1: trade school. That's part of the equation, and you'll have
Speaker 1: a career opportunity after that. And then, of course, the
Speaker 1: green energy tax credit is a subject of disputes between
Speaker 1: again I'm infighting between the Republicans. Document passed by the
Speaker 1: Ways and Means Committee phases out tax credits for solar,
Speaker 1: winter and nuclear projects that come online between twenty twenty
Speaker 1: nine and twenty thirty two. Products that start producing energy
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty nine can get an eighty percent of
Speaker 1: the credit of those that join the grid in twenty
Speaker 1: thirty one forty percent. But all this is brought about
Speaker 1: by the Inflation Reduction Act, and are just bothered because
Speaker 1: these cuts, these terroriffs, these incentives all mean that the
Speaker 1: business model itself, this whole concept of green and green
Speaker 1: energy would not be something anybody would embrace because of course,
Speaker 1: well the math just doesn't work out. But of course
Speaker 1: those reds are those those red state Republicans, even in
Speaker 1: red states, are beneficiaries of the Inflation Reduction Act incentives.
Speaker 1: So they're willing to turn their back on the typical
Speaker 1: Republican platform in mantra, which is, no, we shouldn't be
Speaker 1: funding these green boon doggles. But if the boon doggles
Speaker 1: in my backyard, oh, I'm gonna fight tooth and nail
Speaker 1: over it. Publican party can't get its act together. I
Speaker 1: feel like I'm watching something that would go on in
Speaker 1: Columbus as I watch these arguments unfold. Stick around Christopher
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Speaker 1: If about CAERCB talk station, a point in time during
Speaker 1: the week I always look forward to because now we
Speaker 1: get to hear from the former vice mayor of the
Speaker 1: City of Cincinnati, dear friend of mine and the listening audience,
Speaker 1: Christopher Smith Aman for the Smither event. Welcome back, Christopher.
Speaker 1: How was your weekend, my friend?
Speaker 2: My weekend was okay.
Speaker 7: Man.
Speaker 2: I think I've been open that I provide a lot
Speaker 2: of care for my mom, but you know, I'm honored
Speaker 2: to do it, and you know I share with I'm
Speaker 2: sure you have many listeners out there who are doing
Speaker 2: or have done the same thing. So just a part
Speaker 2: of part of my life.
Speaker 13: Now.
Speaker 2: Well, ma, I did have I had a nice had
Speaker 2: a nice weekend.
Speaker 1: Good to hear that. And I'm not going to ask
Speaker 1: how old your mother is. I know she's getting up
Speaker 1: in years. But you've always had such you know, great
Speaker 1: stories about how blessed you were to grow up with
Speaker 1: your mother and your father. I mean the fact that
Speaker 1: you were so lucky that you have a mother is
Speaker 1: loving and caring and supportive that she was over the years,
Speaker 1: and so I guess it's time to pay it back, man,
Speaker 1: at least to the extent you can.
Speaker 5: No one hundred.
Speaker 2: I mean I promised. I can't speak from other siblings,
Speaker 2: but they're they're helping too. But you know, I promised
Speaker 2: my dad that, you know, as he said, please take
Speaker 2: care Barbara, you know, in the in the last call
Speaker 2: it days of his life where he was conscious, and
Speaker 2: you know, we do this. It's about paying it back.
Speaker 2: And and I encourage anybody there. You know, you don't
Speaker 2: want to have any regrets, and so you don't want
Speaker 2: to be that sibling that doesn't carry their weight.
Speaker 13: You know, you just will be.
Speaker 2: It will just haunt you for the rest of your life.
Speaker 2: So I love and again I'm sincere. I'm honored to
Speaker 2: be a part of it. Brian Thomas, I know you are.
Speaker 1: I know you are.
Speaker 2: So what else I want to start off by just saying,
Speaker 2: you know, my heart goes out to anyone who has cancer.
Speaker 2: So the announcement that President Biden has cancer, that it
Speaker 2: has metastasized and has bones. I heard your interview with
Speaker 2: Westside Jim and him providing insight. So my heart goes
Speaker 2: out to the family and I just want to say
Speaker 2: that publicly, but it still will not take away from
Speaker 2: me discussing what I think in my lifetime was the
Speaker 2: greatest cover up about the health status of a president,
Speaker 2: a sitting president. And what is mind blowing for me,
Speaker 2: Brian Thomas, is the media's cooperation with it. So you
Speaker 2: have a vice president, you have congressional members, you have senators,
Speaker 2: and then you have the media. And when you have
Speaker 2: those White House briefings, no one is asking why the
Speaker 2: president is falling down. There's nothing there. He just falls down.
Speaker 2: Why can't he keep his sentence structures or his thoughts together?
Speaker 2: His mumbling, you know, the bunny rabbit thing that we
Speaker 2: all saw, you know, him falling down the steps coming
Speaker 2: out of Air Force One. It was like the media
Speaker 2: continued to say, your eyes, don't believe them, don't believe
Speaker 2: your ears. He's absolutely healthy. And Brian Thomas, you talked
Speaker 2: about this for years and for years, Brian Thomas, you
Speaker 2: talked about it. It wasn't like, oh, one off, You're like,
Speaker 2: here's something serious going on. And in the middle of
Speaker 2: all of this, I remember you talking like, hey man,
Speaker 2: I'm caring. I'm caring for my own dad. It's not
Speaker 2: like you personally only weren't in it yourself. And I
Speaker 2: remember one morning you were like, listen, I'm telling everybody
Speaker 2: I know what's going on with President Biden, and so
Speaker 2: to hear you know, these different media people write books,
Speaker 2: talk about them, act as if they're revisionists on their history.
Speaker 2: For me, at the beginning of my event, I just
Speaker 2: want to say that is hypocrisy at a level that
Speaker 2: I've never ever spoken or seen before in my life.
Speaker 2: And I really think that there should be congressional hearings,
Speaker 2: you know, because the vice president had to know period staffers,
Speaker 2: chief of staff, they had a responsibility to our constitution
Speaker 2: to whistle blow read alert there's something not right here,
Speaker 2: and it is that serious to me, we can never
Speaker 2: let it happen again. It was a conspiracy to cover
Speaker 2: up the health status of a sitting president, who have
Speaker 2: launched codes, who has launched codes well, who was running
Speaker 2: the United States of America for the last four years
Speaker 2: exactly the fair question.
Speaker 1: That is a fair question.
Speaker 2: Who was running the country.
Speaker 1: I know seven thirty fifty five KR City talk station
Speaker 1: right time I was with former Vice mayor of the
Speaker 1: City of Cincinnati, Christopher Smithman. And he's doing this smither event.
Speaker 1: Get it out of a system, Hey, Christopher. The other
Speaker 1: thing is on that Biden's mental decline. You know, isn't
Speaker 1: an interesting special counsel Robert Hurr. The audio from that
Speaker 1: interview was finally released. We had the transcripts previously released.
Speaker 1: But he did that interview over the his Biden's retention
Speaker 1: of classified documents, keeping him in his garage and all
Speaker 1: over the place. Found enough information to prosecute him for that,
Speaker 1: but decided not to because he said he was obviously
Speaker 1: struggling cognitively had some mental issues. That interview took place
Speaker 1: in October of twenty twenty three. I mean, you think
Speaker 1: about that if you had any question up until that
Speaker 1: point in time about whether or not he was having problems.
Speaker 1: They decided not to prosecute him because he'd be viewed
Speaker 1: as a feeble old man with a bad memory that
Speaker 1: speaks volumes. And yet they still ran him to for
Speaker 1: re election as president. And then it took that terrible
Speaker 1: debate with Donald Trump to finally haven't pulled the plog
Speaker 1: on him. And what was.
Speaker 2: Amazing is when the special prosecutor came out with the
Speaker 2: finding of I don't think I can prosecute his older
Speaker 2: man because of his memory or as hell, the Democrats.
Speaker 1: Destroyed them, Yeah, they did. They did this, destroyed them,
Speaker 1: the same Democrats who could see for themselves every time
Speaker 1: they were around the president that he was struggling on
Speaker 1: a number of ways, and then ask this, we just
Speaker 1: recently found out that they used the auto pen on
Speaker 1: just a multitude of occasions. Joe Biden didn't actually sign
Speaker 1: executive orders. They had a machine that signed it for him.
Speaker 1: Going back to your question, who was who was calling
Speaker 1: the shots? If Biden's sitting over in a corner, drooling
Speaker 1: on himself, not aware of what's going on, and he
Speaker 1: kind of gave us an indication that's pretty much what
Speaker 1: he was doing. Who made the decision to pen his
Speaker 1: name there? And isn't that really kind of forgery if
Speaker 1: that directive didn't come directly from the United States President?
Speaker 2: One hundred percent? And their lives conspiracy, all the pardons,
Speaker 2: all the discussions that were happening around student loan forgiveness
Speaker 2: as just these low hanging fruits things that he continued
Speaker 2: to announce. Who was actually running the government. Congress should
Speaker 2: have acted. They didn't. They didn't. They were they were
Speaker 2: absolutely absent from their responsibility, and there needs to be
Speaker 2: a deep investigation and people need to be held accountable.
Speaker 2: It can't be just like let's sweep fit under the rub.
Speaker 2: If you heard Democratic leaders Brian Thomas over the weekend,
Speaker 2: they all have the talking point, let's just move forward,
Speaker 2: let's just move forward. How can I move forward? And
Speaker 2: I'm not exaggerating that. Even in my own family, when
Speaker 2: I would raise the issue about the health status of
Speaker 2: President Biden, I had family members that wanted to cancel
Speaker 2: me just because I would. I mean, you were taking
Speaker 2: a big risk, Brian Thomas, at the time when you
Speaker 2: were saying, hey, there's something wrong with the president, let's
Speaker 2: not forget that the world was not on board. And
Speaker 2: remember the g seventh trip when the President just wandered
Speaker 2: off and the French president had to go over and
Speaker 2: pull him back, like where you going? People were like,
Speaker 2: oh that really, that really didn't happen. He was really
Speaker 2: over trying to see the person who parachuted. In My
Speaker 2: point to you is that families were destroyed because there
Speaker 2: was someone in the family that had the gall to
Speaker 2: question the health status of Biden, and they viewed it
Speaker 2: as a political attack, not people who were saying, I'm
Speaker 2: concerned about the presidency, not the person. I'm concerned about
Speaker 2: the constitution. And I think it's fair for any of
Speaker 2: us to go back and review all those four years
Speaker 2: to figure out when and where was the president impaired
Speaker 2: and who exactly was running the United States of America,
Speaker 2: because we know it was in President Biden.
Speaker 1: You're right, and you know as you as one contemplates
Speaker 1: the idea that family members, blood relatives refuse to speak
Speaker 1: to each other and otherwise severed ties based upon someone's
Speaker 1: comments about how fragile Joe Biden came across, or someone's
Speaker 1: maybe even pro Trump comments, going back to that Trump
Speaker 1: arrangement syndrome, that is that that's a sorry state of
Speaker 1: familiar relationships right there. That's just how shaky a ground
Speaker 1: they are that you were going to just ignore and
Speaker 1: otherwise ast your size a family member because of a
Speaker 1: random political statement you're gonna let Donald Trump get under
Speaker 1: your skin that much, or a statement that maybe suggestive
Speaker 1: of your support of Trump by making a comment about
Speaker 1: Joe Biden's frailty, that's going to cause you to alienate
Speaker 1: someone that's sad, that is really sad.
Speaker 2: And it happened all over the current And imagine what
Speaker 2: those family members are thinking now. It was all a lie.
Speaker 2: CNN was lyne to me, MSNBC was lyne to me.
Speaker 2: Bloomberg News, Financial News, they were lying to us, telling
Speaker 2: us that if you even questioned it had you were
Speaker 2: a racist, you were a narcissist, that you just had
Speaker 2: to be supporting Trump. If you said, hey, man, what's
Speaker 2: going on with President Biden? It didn't matter who the
Speaker 2: Democratic nominee was. And by the way, that is ultimately
Speaker 2: what destroyed Vice President Harrick. There were people out there
Speaker 2: that said, one, she lounched her campaign way too late
Speaker 2: because the Biden family, led by probably Jill Biden, the
Speaker 2: first lady, kept her husband in the race too long,
Speaker 2: and the Vice president didn't stand up like she was
Speaker 2: in a very tough spot. I want to say that
Speaker 2: from a politician, like it's like saying John Cranley is
Speaker 2: really sick. I'm the vice mayor and for some reason,
Speaker 2: and he's the person that has given.
Speaker 7: Me the power.
Speaker 2: My power comes through the presidency, and now I'm in
Speaker 2: this tough spot where I'm going. Oh my god, if
Speaker 2: I tell the truth that the president is impaired, the
Speaker 2: Democrats are going to destroy me just like they did
Speaker 2: her or I'm talking about the special prosecutor or. She
Speaker 2: turns around and says, no, I'm just going to ignore
Speaker 2: this and try to run. I believe that the tension
Speaker 2: between the Hearents camp and the Biden camp was centered
Speaker 2: around this conspiracy that President Biden really wasn't running the
Speaker 2: country and she knew it.
Speaker 1: I agree with you. The Vidybob KARRECD talk Station Brian
Speaker 1: Thomas with Christopher Smithan Smith Event's what we call the
Speaker 1: segment What else is on your mind today?
Speaker 2: Christopher Smitheman, Well, I'm going to end by just saying,
Speaker 2: you know, I think about somebody like Nancy Pelosi, who
Speaker 2: had full access to President Biden, and I think we're
Speaker 2: getting a better picture of why she started saying in
Speaker 2: the eleventh hour he couldn't serve and shouldn't run the
Speaker 2: problem with the speaker who is actually inligned to be
Speaker 2: the president herself in a in a catastrophic situation, she
Speaker 2: should have disclosed many many years ago in that presidency
Speaker 2: that there was something wrong with him, and I'm just
Speaker 2: I just prayed that Congress has the courage. I don't
Speaker 2: want them to be distracted on the big things that
Speaker 2: they're doing, but as soon as they passes this tax bill,
Speaker 2: they should pivot and give the transparency. I mean, that
Speaker 2: take that we're talking about is so revealing, and I
Speaker 2: hope everyone will take the time this week to listen
Speaker 2: to some of it or listen to all of it.
Speaker 2: It's out there for anybody to see that interview between
Speaker 2: the Special prosecutor and President Biden. It'll give you great insight.
Speaker 2: As Brian Thomas said years before. I mean, Brian Thomas,
Speaker 2: you had never heard the audio and you were talking
Speaker 2: about who's running the United States of America. It didn't
Speaker 2: take the audio for you to go, aha, there's a
Speaker 2: problem in the White House and there is a conspiracy.
Speaker 3: To cover up.
Speaker 1: Well, I mean, listen, all I can do is look,
Speaker 1: I mean, see the video and listen to the audio
Speaker 1: and the video together and draw my own conclusions. And
Speaker 1: there were so many illustrations of this going on, that's
Speaker 1: the only conclusion I could reach. So I think it
Speaker 1: was a fair one. And oh look I was right.
Speaker 9: Hmm.
Speaker 1: Okay, So for all those people out there that you know,
Speaker 1: didn't Thomas is wrong, He's crazy. You know, he's a
Speaker 1: conspiracy theorists. This reminds me a lot of things that
Speaker 1: were said about COVID and masking and lockdowns and social distancing.
Speaker 1: They were just like, this isn't going to do anything,
Speaker 1: and they were ridiculed and belittled and berated, and doctors
Speaker 1: who stood up and spoke truth to power would lose
Speaker 1: their license or get ostracized by the medical profession and
Speaker 1: low to hold they were all right. So you know,
Speaker 1: the other thing about this is you mentioned Nancy Pelosi,
Speaker 1: but also a guy like Chucky Schumer, the press, the
Speaker 1: various press secretaries, all of the cabinet members that had
Speaker 1: to interact with the president over and over and over again.
Speaker 1: You know, Pete budda judge and others would come out
Speaker 1: and tell you that everything is just aoka and they're
Speaker 1: all now held out to be liars. And my question
Speaker 1: to you, Christopher Smithman, from a political standpoint, I guess
Speaker 1: I'm just kind of wondering how the Democrats, how Democrats
Speaker 1: in the Democratic Party feel about what their party and
Speaker 1: their party officials did to them in perpetuating this lie.
Speaker 1: So they first off back when Bernie Sanders one of
Speaker 1: the nomination, they pulled a plug on Bernie Sanders, who
Speaker 1: looked like he was going to win it in favor
Speaker 1: of the quote unquote moderate Joe Biden. That wasn't exactly
Speaker 1: a democratic process, and they pulled the same shenanigans, telling
Speaker 1: Biden he's going to run again, and then realize, in
Speaker 1: spite of everything that they were aware of, continue to
Speaker 1: run him until the debate, at which time they deprived
Speaker 1: the Democratic Party of a choice on who they wanted
Speaker 1: to be the nominee, just dubbing and coordinating Kamala Harris,
Speaker 1: which didn't sit well with many people. And then you
Speaker 1: got the mainstream media complicit in all this. I mean,
Speaker 1: if I I'm critical of the Republicans in Columbus and
Speaker 1: what they've done in the past, like with Larry Householder
Speaker 1: and Governor de Wine, and I'm you know, I can
Speaker 1: be critical of him and think we hit a changing
Speaker 1: of the guard. Thank god for VV. Ramaswami getting the nomination,
Speaker 1: But you know, I just wonder how the Democrats feel.
Speaker 1: Do they they really believe they have been betrayed? And
Speaker 1: don't you think they should.
Speaker 2: Well, remember, the Democrats nationally had a campaign using Now,
Speaker 2: I know, it was just a slogan constitutional crisis, right,
Speaker 2: I mean, think about them using that knowing that the
Speaker 2: White House is impaired. The constitutional crisis was President Biden
Speaker 2: himself because he has dementia or Alzheimer's. He has dementia
Speaker 2: or Alzheimer's. And everybody knew it. Brian Thomas, you knew it.
Speaker 2: There were media people who knew it. And it had
Speaker 2: nothing to do with being a libertarian or a conservative
Speaker 2: or a liberal. It had to do with caring about
Speaker 2: the country. And if they're willing to cover up something
Speaker 2: like this, what else are they covering up? And so
Speaker 2: that's what frustrated me that the Democrats were using this
Speaker 2: constitutional crisis campaign destroying American family, right, because there were
Speaker 2: family members that were saying there's a problem with the president,
Speaker 2: and all of a sudden, it made you a pariah.
Speaker 2: Those people need to be rehabilitated in the family, they
Speaker 2: need to be rehabilitated in the mets. They need to
Speaker 2: be rehabilitated as local and national and statewide politicians. Because
Speaker 2: they all were right, and that's why we have to
Speaker 2: take time to discuss it. And why the Democrats who
Speaker 2: were saying let's just move forward, is just not going
Speaker 2: to work with me. I want to know what the
Speaker 2: heck was going on over the last four years with
Speaker 2: President Biden. Who knew what, when, and why didn't they,
Speaker 2: under the constitution of the United States share that information
Speaker 2: with the American public. We deserve to know what happened
Speaker 2: in our government so it never happened again. Even the
Speaker 2: doctors who were saying he was help me, Hey, the
Speaker 2: doctors are supposed to go and give the health check.
Speaker 2: The doctors were coming out saying, under their responsibilities of
Speaker 2: being a physician, how were you passing President Biden for
Speaker 2: four years saying nothing was wrong? The candidate his name
Speaker 2: was President Trump. If you remember saying, hey, I'm going
Speaker 2: to go have my doctor check me. Here's what he said.
Speaker 2: What was going on with the White House physician? That
Speaker 2: person failled Americans by not coming clean about the president self.
Speaker 2: That's why he's in the position, That's why she's in
Speaker 2: the position to tell us the health status of the president.
Speaker 2: For God's sake, they have the latch codes. This is
Speaker 2: a person who's making huge decisions about the about the
Speaker 2: removal or the pull out of Afghanistan to the basic
Speaker 2: Germaine decisions they're making on a daily basis about Ukraine
Speaker 2: and what's happening with Russia or what's going on with
Speaker 2: Israel and what's going on with Harman. This was a
Speaker 2: great conspiracy of great magnitude, with the media absolutely being
Speaker 2: involved in it, and we need to know what happened.
Speaker 2: Bryan Thomas, that's my spleet vent for the for the week.
Speaker 1: That you did, and I guess it may go a
Speaker 1: long way to explain, Christopher, why Joe Biden didn't turn
Speaker 1: out to be the so called moderate, rational, you know,
Speaker 1: as'll crossing kind of guy that they touted him to be,
Speaker 1: the one that the American people selected to be the nominee.
Speaker 1: I suppose maybe it's because he wasn't in charge. Maybe
Speaker 1: it's because the leftists that obviously have taken over the
Speaker 1: Democratic Party got their way with the auto pen or
Speaker 1: you know, whispering in his ear or otherwise driving policy
Speaker 1: to the far left extremes of the political spectrum. Obiden, Yeah,
Speaker 1: Biden not paying attention. So anyhow we could have to
Speaker 1: speculate at this point.
Speaker 2: Thank you so much for the time, Brian Thomas, and
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Speaker 2: look forward to being back with you next Monday.
Speaker 1: I will. I look forward to it as well. Christopher,
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Speaker 1: Chuck Ingram on fifty five KR seat the talk station
Speaker 1: seven fifty four fifty five R see talk station. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the other thing that's coming back up to the top.
Speaker 1: And Donald Trump brought it back up at the top. Okay,
Speaker 1: we've got all this, you know, uh, cover up from
Speaker 1: within the government, the cabinet position as the press secretaries,
Speaker 1: the Chucky Schumer and Nancy Pelussi, everybody who spent any
Speaker 1: time with Biden's now him to come up and admit
Speaker 1: that we got Yeah, he had a problem on our hands.
Speaker 1: All the books that are being written about it by
Speaker 1: people who used to deny it, Jake Tapper most notably,
Speaker 1: you know, profiting on what they're now saying we all
Speaker 1: knew about and document it with all these quotes and interviews.
Speaker 1: But you had this media complicity, So you had the
Speaker 1: people lying about his health and immedia that would parrot
Speaker 1: it and not look into the veracity of what they
Speaker 1: were being told. In spite of people like me who
Speaker 1: could see with their own eyes and hear with their
Speaker 1: own ears. An obvious cognitive decline going on. But now
Speaker 1: Trump's bringing back up the whole idea of the stolen election.
Speaker 1: And you know we heard that before. That's been discredit
Speaker 1: The election wasn't stolen, but that's what the mainstream media
Speaker 1: kept saying, right, So if you're going to be objective
Speaker 1: about it and realize the mainstream media obviously in the
Speaker 1: bag for Democrats and all things democratic, and particularly Joe Biden,
Speaker 1: you got to have a John Deciah of skepticism about
Speaker 1: what they told you about that, don't you. They're the
Speaker 1: ones responsible for fact checking and looking into matters and investigating,
Speaker 1: and there wasn't a whole lot of that done. And
Speaker 1: Trump just over the weekend on Saturday put a truth
Speaker 1: Truth social media post up so that the presidential election
Speaker 1: of twenty twenty was rigged and stolen. He mentioned the
Speaker 1: auto pen, He mentioned a larger scandal going on here,
Speaker 1: and the campaign of inoculation and innocence of Democrats wage.
Speaker 1: None like that had ever been waged before. So he's
Speaker 1: now going back to the well on the election being
Speaker 1: stolen in twenty twenty, Maybe some fact checking will be done,
Speaker 1: maybe there will be a true investigation on that. There's
Speaker 1: been a lot of evidence and a lot of investigations
Speaker 1: and a lot of you know, voting voting irregularities have
Speaker 1: been and pointed out since the mainstream media and the
Speaker 1: Democrats concluded that no, there is nothing to see here.
Speaker 1: Fifty five k SE Detalk Station Money Money with Brian James.
Speaker 1: First topic Moody's credit rating looking good and the motivations
Speaker 1: behind it are seemingly obvious. Yes, we spend too much
Speaker 1: and our deficit is too big. Don't go away, be
Speaker 1: right back. Confuse happens fast, stay up to date at
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Speaker 1: this time we do Money Monday with Brian James from
Speaker 1: all Worth Financial. Brian, I hope you had a wonderful weekend.
Speaker 17: Welcome back to the show as always, hope you did too,
Speaker 17: and thank you for the time to once again hang
Speaker 17: out with you on Monday.
Speaker 1: Always enjoy it. And of course I've been railing about
Speaker 1: this all morning. Moody stripped the US of its top
Speaker 1: credit rating, knocked us down a notch, of course, catching
Speaker 1: up with the likes of Standard and Poors, who did
Speaker 1: that back in twenty eleven, INFIT Ratings, which did it
Speaker 1: back in August at twenty three. But the markets reacting,
Speaker 1: futures are down and of course treasury yields have jumped
Speaker 1: because the poorer you're credit rating, the more you have
Speaker 1: to pay people to invest in your well. In this
Speaker 1: particular case country, I mean, and they spelled it out
Speaker 1: in black and white, Moody's pointed it out. It's the
Speaker 1: growing burden of the financial and federal government's budget deficit
Speaker 1: and the rising cost of debt service on it.
Speaker 13: Duh.
Speaker 9: Yeah, this isn't too big of a shocker, is it.
Speaker 17: So what the credit rating is, of course, is a
Speaker 17: way of comparing one country or really anything. Just about
Speaker 17: anything has a credit rating, governments, corporations, frankly, people do too.
Speaker 9: That's what those credit bureaus are for.
Speaker 17: But the whole point is to compare one entity to
Speaker 17: another in terms of how likely are they to pay
Speaker 17: their debts. And Moody's is the last of the three
Speaker 17: major rating facilities to cut the United States down from
Speaker 17: a perfect rating, and that that started in twenty eleven,
Speaker 17: so in the aftermath of two thousand and eight, S
Speaker 17: and P was the first one to cut us and
Speaker 17: kind of say, maybe we're not so good as good.
Speaker 1: As we used to look.
Speaker 17: So yeah, in this this isn't too big of a
Speaker 17: shock because we are putting ourselves. We are proactively deciding
Speaker 17: to present ourselves to the as a country, to the
Speaker 17: rest of the world in a different manner where that
Speaker 17: necessarily has an impact on the economic output of the country.
Speaker 17: And what are the what's the outlook of how can
Speaker 17: we be going forward, you know, as we have in
Speaker 17: the past, And so for sure that's now having an
Speaker 17: impact on the market. The futures are down one to
Speaker 17: two percent depending on what you're looking at. This is
Speaker 17: But again, this can't be too much of a shock.
Speaker 17: We've consciously decided to do things differently. We talk all
Speaker 17: the time about how we can't afford ourselves, we're living
Speaker 17: beyond our means, and it is starting to surface here
Speaker 17: just a little bit in terms of the rest of
Speaker 17: the world's perception of the United States as a credit
Speaker 17: worth the facility.
Speaker 1: Well, I suppose the timing couldn't have been better, considering
Speaker 1: they're talking about this reconciliation package, which deals with the
Speaker 1: debt and spending, and I know there's some moderate Republicans
Speaker 1: who are standing in the way of advancing some steeper
Speaker 1: cuts because oh, it's my green energy product, you're not
Speaker 1: our project. You're not going to cut it in my state,
Speaker 1: or it's I'm in New Jersey and I wanted one
Speaker 1: hundred and twenty four thousand dollars per couple salt tax
Speaker 1: because well, the taxes of my state are outrages. I mean,
Speaker 1: we just subsidized the high tax states, high taxation, and
Speaker 1: the people that should be paying that by cutting their
Speaker 1: federal income tax. I mean, you know, the point of
Speaker 1: capping the salt tax at ten thousand dollars would so
Speaker 1: we wouldn't be subsidizing those outrageous states.
Speaker 9: That's right.
Speaker 17: What we're doing is taking active steps to hopefully, you know,
Speaker 17: reduce that. But there's no way to do all this
Speaker 17: kind of stuff without pain. That that's the one thing
Speaker 17: that we have not been able to drag across the
Speaker 17: finish line here. Both parties recognize and have for decades
Speaker 17: that there is a problem, and we are moving in
Speaker 17: the wrong direction. However, there has never been an effort
Speaker 17: where on one side has successfully reached across the aisle
Speaker 17: to actually do something about it, and that's really not
Speaker 17: even happening now. We just have a situation in eituation
Speaker 17: where the Republicans obviously dominate both both parts of Congress,
Speaker 17: and that's the closest we're going to get to putting
Speaker 17: all this in place to make the fixes.
Speaker 9: But it's gonna have to survive, Brian, the midterm elections.
Speaker 17: Right So, right now, Donald Trump effectively has you know,
Speaker 17: pretty much carb bloc to do just about whatever he
Speaker 17: wants to do because he's got control of Congress for
Speaker 17: the most part, and he's ignoring a lot of the
Speaker 17: rules and regulations that were in place anyway. But if
Speaker 17: a lot of the stuff doesn't get done before the
Speaker 17: midterm elections, I can't think that dependulum is not going
Speaker 17: to swing back the other way, well back the.
Speaker 1: Other way, toward even more reckless spending. I mean, we're
Speaker 1: I mean, I hate to use the phrase existential threat again,
Speaker 1: but we're already paying a trillion dollars a year in
Speaker 1: debt service and that's only going to get worse and worse,
Speaker 1: and that takes away from literally anything else that's I
Speaker 1: don't care what side of the political spectrum're on. If
Speaker 1: you want the government to pay for something, the more
Speaker 1: money we have to allocate to debt service, which is required.
Speaker 1: You can't just ignore that. You're not going to have
Speaker 1: money left over for expanding this or funding that. Whether
Speaker 1: it's military or one of the social welfare safety nets,
Speaker 1: they're all going to be deprived extra dollars.
Speaker 17: Yeah, that's absolutely right, and that's why it's been so
Speaker 17: important that we actually get people in the same room
Speaker 17: to talk and agree on something. We haven't been able
Speaker 17: to do that because the American people have not been
Speaker 17: willing to.
Speaker 9: Sacrifice what they need to.
Speaker 17: Because if your congress person is out there trying to say, hey,
Speaker 17: we're living beyond our means, we have to stop doing that,
Speaker 17: what they're actually saying, if they're serious, is we need
Speaker 17: to give up something.
Speaker 9: And that has not been a politically tenable stance to take.
Speaker 17: If you are somebody whose career and livelihood depends on
Speaker 17: getting elected again.
Speaker 1: Well, and there lies the problem. As far as I'm concerned.
Speaker 1: You should do what's right, what's fiscally responsible. What is
Speaker 1: going to save the country from itself and not just
Speaker 1: to pease people see and get re elected. I could
Speaker 1: campaign if I cut back medicaid well, simply requiring people
Speaker 1: that are able bodied without families to engage in some work,
Speaker 1: training or work. I mean to the tune of what
Speaker 1: twenty hours a week is really a small, small ask.
Speaker 17: That's not unfair to say, but that has to extend
Speaker 17: to the person who might take advantage of the opportunity
Speaker 17: to take down an incumbent representative. Because that person told
Speaker 17: the country the truth, it leaves them to being a
Speaker 17: sitting duck. Hey, this person told you had to sacrifice something,
Speaker 17: I'm telling you the opposite. We're gonna keep giving you money.
Speaker 17: Nobody has to resist that urge. But it's been the
Speaker 17: American way for several hundred years.
Speaker 1: Well, they need to just hold up the Moody's reports. Say, look,
Speaker 1: we've already been downgraded. Why because our national debt is
Speaker 1: so big it's sucking up all the life out of
Speaker 1: the room. This is what we're talking about. So yeah,
Speaker 1: you can tell people there don't have to be any cuts,
Speaker 1: but it's just gonna get worse and our borrowing costs
Speaker 1: are just gonna get that much greater, and our debt
Speaker 1: service is gonna get that much greater. I mean, explain
Speaker 1: to my listeners if you can, Brian James, what would
Speaker 1: a default look like? How would that play out? If
Speaker 1: we couldn't make the debt service on our national debt?
Speaker 17: Nobody comes out of a US default looking pretty The
Speaker 17: entire world will be impacted because, whether they like us
Speaker 17: or not, we are by far, far, far, far far
Speaker 17: the largest economy on the face of the Earth. American
Speaker 17: economy is twenty two to twenty three trillion dollars something
Speaker 17: like that. China is somewhere around nineteen twenty trillion, and
Speaker 17: it goes rapidly down from there. So if all of
Speaker 17: a sudden, the rest of the planet basically being the
Speaker 17: entire universe, loses faith in the faith in the United
Speaker 17: States ability to pay its debt, then all of a sudden,
Speaker 17: all those countries and the rest of the world is
Speaker 17: going to lose a substantial customer base from which to sell,
Speaker 17: and that's going to have a domino effect. So nobody,
Speaker 17: even those who would prefer that we get knocked off
Speaker 17: our pedestal, will not benefit from that.
Speaker 9: Disruption to that level.
Speaker 17: Now I'm looking at I think these ratings, it's important
Speaker 17: to understand what the ratings actually mean, because some people
Speaker 17: might say, well, we're still since we're the largest economy,
Speaker 17: that means the ratings aren't as important because you know,
Speaker 17: we're just so gotsdarn big. Well, just to give some comparison,
Speaker 17: there there are nine other countries now that have perfect
Speaker 17: credit ratings. You still can buy government debt that has
Speaker 17: perfect credit rating. Germany, Switzerland, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Netherlands, Australia,
Speaker 17: Singapore or in Luxembourg all have better credit ratings in
Speaker 17: the United.
Speaker 9: States and subsequently have lower yields.
Speaker 17: If you want to buy those countries treasury bonds, you're
Speaker 17: going to be getting about two percent on a ten
Speaker 17: year bond in compared to the United States, which is
Speaker 17: currently about four and a half percent. The yield on
Speaker 17: a bond is directly reflective brian of the of a
Speaker 17: country's ability to pay its debts. If you are a deadbeat,
Speaker 17: then you're not getting a credit card. If you do,
Speaker 17: you'll be paying thirty percent. The rest of the world
Speaker 17: is saying the United States needs to pay four and
Speaker 17: a half percent, while these other countries need to pay
Speaker 17: about two to borrow money.
Speaker 1: Well, it is illustrative of the problem. And I don't know.
Speaker 1: I guess at some point we may get junk status.
Speaker 1: What is junk considered? What nine percent and above or
Speaker 1: something along those lines.
Speaker 17: Well, the junk status has to do with the credit
Speaker 17: rating itself. It's not the yield directly, but that's triple
Speaker 17: Triple B is the last investment grade generally speaking, and
Speaker 17: below that you get labeled as junk, which doesn't mean
Speaker 17: you can't pay your debts. It just means you've kind
Speaker 17: of moved into a territory where it's a little more
Speaker 17: likely that anybody who owe that you owe money to
Speaker 17: ought to be paying attention to to make sure.
Speaker 1: That you are good for it. Fair enough, if we're
Speaker 1: going to find out about starter homes and Greater Cincinnati,
Speaker 1: are there any even out there more of Brian James
Speaker 1: Walworth Financial, Hey nineteen If you have fair CD talk
Speaker 1: Station Money Monday. Brian James Allworth Financial, Hey, real quick here,
Speaker 1: since you talked about credit rating and the Moody's downgrading
Speaker 1: at United States credit rating, I just checked my credit
Speaker 1: score the other day. I get a notice from LifeLock saying, hey,
Speaker 1: your credit score is changed, or I check it out.
Speaker 1: You know, I still have excellent credit, And at one
Speaker 1: point I actually had a perfect credit store. It didn't
Speaker 1: last very long, so it dropped two points. And the
Speaker 1: reason is because I have excellent in every single category
Speaker 1: except one. They say I don't have enough accounts that
Speaker 1: I should have more available credit. I'm thinking, how bast
Speaker 1: awkward is that? That doesn't make any sense to me.
Speaker 1: I'm dutifully and timefully paying off what credit cards I have.
Speaker 1: I don't need any additional credit. Why in the hell
Speaker 1: would I want to go out and get more. It
Speaker 1: doesn't make any sense.
Speaker 9: Yeah, it is kind of counterintuitive.
Speaker 17: What they're basically saying is that you're such a good
Speaker 17: credit risk that we think you should have more. I
Speaker 17: think there's a little bit of an ulterior motive in
Speaker 17: there that to help you encourage you to do that.
Speaker 17: I've noticed that the biggest spikes I've gotten in my
Speaker 17: credit score is when, you know, if we do something
Speaker 17: for the house or whatever, and there's some kind of
Speaker 17: promotional zero percent rate, Sure, I'll take that. I don't
Speaker 17: really care about the credit, don't really need that. But
Speaker 17: all of a sudden A month later, my credit score
Speaker 17: spikes because I have an extra line in place, off
Speaker 17: of which I'm not paying anybody any interest.
Speaker 9: It just gave me a better price.
Speaker 17: But yes, they do want you to have more if
Speaker 17: you take it, if you want to take advantage of
Speaker 17: those things, it will give you a higher score.
Speaker 1: All right. I'm not interested in it, because I'm still fine.
Speaker 1: It just it just drives me crazy when I read that,
Speaker 1: I'm like, damn it, why would I want to go
Speaker 1: out and get, you know, a more opportunity to borrow
Speaker 1: that I wouldn't use. To your point, I wouldn't need it.
Speaker 1: I don't need it. I wouldn't use it. So anyhow,
Speaker 1: moving back to your topics that you provided. Sorry for
Speaker 1: the curve ball there, Brian, I just found that very frustrating.
Speaker 1: Starter homes Are there any around Cincinnati? I saw the
Speaker 1: article from Randy Tucker and from the Enquirer, and apparently
Speaker 1: they're in very short.
Speaker 17: Supply, very much so. Yeah, so if you look around there,
Speaker 17: there's still plenty of building going on. Right, We've been
Speaker 17: talking about this housing crash that's supposed to be coming
Speaker 17: for years now. Maybe we've given up on talking about
Speaker 17: it we found a new shiny object, but that simply
Speaker 17: hasn't happened. But no, there's not many starter type homes
Speaker 17: being built in Cincinnati, you know, the kind of homes
Speaker 17: one or two, maybe three bedrooms at the most. But
Speaker 17: obviously to allow a young family to kind of get started,
Speaker 17: really struggling for buyers to find a home for under
Speaker 17: three hundred thousand that doesn't require major work or isn't
Speaker 17: a neighborhood that's not quite ideal.
Speaker 9: The demand is there. Of course, there are people in
Speaker 9: the situation.
Speaker 17: We probably all know young people who would prefer to
Speaker 17: get out of their apartments and their condos and get
Speaker 17: into something different.
Speaker 9: But the supply is not there, and the reason is
Speaker 9: it's just not as attractive for builders.
Speaker 17: Builders are prefer larger homes because there's more profit margin,
Speaker 17: that's more scalable. If you think about fixed costs like
Speaker 17: permitting and comply and all the stuff that they have
Speaker 17: to do that has nothing to do with putting two
Speaker 17: by fours together, those fixed costs are the same no
Speaker 17: matter the size of the ultimate home, and their preference,
Speaker 17: of course, is to make as much money as they
Speaker 17: possibly can, so they're focusing on the larger homes still
Speaker 17: in this area.
Speaker 1: Well, it's always puzzled me because unless I've got the
Speaker 1: whole concept wrong, it seems to me the trend is
Speaker 1: for people to pursue a smaller home. Now, that doesn't
Speaker 1: mean you have to sacrifice on quality. You could really
Speaker 1: build a superior quality with all the amenities, much smaller home.
Speaker 1: You don't have to build some mega mansion or mini mansion.
Speaker 1: And when you do, you've got so much additional you know,
Speaker 1: like heating and air conditioning expense, you got to furnish
Speaker 1: their rooms. It seems to be stupid to have that
Speaker 1: much space, most notably if you don't have a really
Speaker 1: big family, and with an aging population, the demand for
Speaker 1: smaller homes is probably increased because you don't want as
Speaker 1: much place to have to clean. Maybe you don't want
Speaker 1: to go up and downstairs, and you're looking for ranchumps.
Speaker 1: That just sounds to me like an ideal opportunity for
Speaker 1: a smart dev to build small err homes compared to
Speaker 1: what they've been building, but make them at higher quality
Speaker 1: to increase that profit margin.
Speaker 9: Yeah, but I think the higher quality part.
Speaker 17: If you're increasing the profit margin, you're increasing the price,
Speaker 17: and that's one of the non starters for a young
Speaker 17: family getting started in and we've addressed.
Speaker 9: That too with patio homes.
Speaker 17: Patio homes are popping up everywhere, but a starter family
Speaker 17: is not going to want that because they need somewhere
Speaker 17: to let the kids run around and storage of all
Speaker 17: the old baby stuff and all that other things, and
Speaker 17: those neighborhoods tend to be fifty five and older anyway,
Speaker 17: So we just haven't filled that gap here in this area.
Speaker 17: Other cities have, the cities with real real estate spikes
Speaker 17: that are really truly issues, such as Austin, Denver, Portland
Speaker 17: to Minneapolis.
Speaker 9: These are places that have changed how they do zoning laws.
Speaker 17: So, for example, Minneapolis in twenty nineteen started to allow
Speaker 17: duplexus and triplexus city wide to at least let off
Speaker 17: some of that some of that demand. Those kind of
Speaker 17: steps have not been taken around here yet because it's
Speaker 17: still arguably affordable for a you know, somebody who's looking
Speaker 17: for a quote unquote starter home to get into that
Speaker 17: three hundred, three hundred and fifty thousand. But we're getting
Speaker 17: to the point where it's just not gonna be feasible
Speaker 17: for somebody to take that.
Speaker 1: Step unless you're willing to buy one that needs maybe
Speaker 1: quite a bit of work.
Speaker 17: Correct or in a neighborhood that is hopefully going to
Speaker 17: turn around in the next decade or so. But yeah,
Speaker 17: you have to kind of you're taking a risk there
Speaker 17: if you really need that house with more bedrooms, you
Speaker 17: are looking to again pick up something that's gonna need
Speaker 17: a lot of work, or in a neighborhood that you
Speaker 17: may not want to be raising your kids in.
Speaker 1: Understand tough challenges out there in the world these days,
Speaker 1: Is there do you see anything that might turn this around?
Speaker 17: Honestly, we've been talking about this for years. Haven't we
Speaker 17: been talking about this ever since two thousand and eight? Really,
Speaker 17: you know, I would have thought it would have happened
Speaker 17: by now. When is the bubble gonna pop where people
Speaker 17: just say, you know what, I just can't do it.
Speaker 17: I can't buy these houses. I'm talking to my clients
Speaker 17: who are retiring and some of them are still buying
Speaker 17: three and four bedroom houses, And I scratched my head, Brian,
Speaker 17: why are we doing this? It's all almost like it's
Speaker 17: become ingrained that I just have to live in a house.
Speaker 17: That's just all there is out there. So I'm going
Speaker 17: to have a couple empty rooms just the way.
Speaker 1: It is fair enough. Brian James will continue one more
Speaker 1: of that topic. All right, you know, I admit and
Speaker 1: you know I'm embarrassed to admit it, but I've said
Speaker 1: it so many times. Regular listeners know that I do
Speaker 1: watch shows like Wheel Fortune to wind down before I
Speaker 1: go to bed at eight, Brian, and it always blows
Speaker 1: my mind to see the cost of some of these
Speaker 1: vacation trips that they put together. I'm like, Lord almighty,
Speaker 1: how does any kind of regular, average American family spend
Speaker 1: that kind of money to go someplace like that? And
Speaker 1: I was never a big guy when it came to travel,
Speaker 1: certainly not global travel. I've always enjoyed spending time here
Speaker 1: in the United States of America, where there seems to
Speaker 1: be an endless supply of destinations. But I understand that
Speaker 1: the big summer vacation plans are being put on ice
Speaker 1: this summer.
Speaker 9: Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 17: So when I'm doing financial plans for clients, what we
Speaker 17: always budget for vacation and used to be that we
Speaker 17: would throw in. If somebody didn't talk about travel, like
Speaker 17: it wasn't a retirement goal, I'd throw in three thousand bucks,
Speaker 17: because everybody would go down to Myrtle Beach or Hilton Had,
Speaker 17: you know, once or twice and three thousand bucks would
Speaker 17: cover it. That minimum has now become five thousand for
Speaker 17: my folks who don't bring up travel. For the ones
Speaker 17: who say, yes, we've always wanted to travel, we can't
Speaker 17: wait to do it. Now we're putting in ten to
Speaker 17: twelve thousand at an absolute minimum. For the ones who
Speaker 17: want to hit it hard, we're budgeting twenty thousand dollars
Speaker 17: per year, and so there's stories in here about of course,
Speaker 17: if you're going to budget out a trip to Europe,
Speaker 17: that's going to be in the twenty thousand dollars range
Speaker 17: to go make it worth your while.
Speaker 9: Nobody goes for a long weekend. You're going to make
Speaker 9: it at least ten.
Speaker 17: Days or so twenty thousand dollars. Now, we budgeted one
Speaker 17: for the James family. We didn't end up going because
Speaker 17: it was twenty twenty and you can remember what happened then.
Speaker 17: We were very close to swiping the credit card, but
Speaker 17: it was going to be about thirteen thousand at that
Speaker 17: point to get all five of us through Scandinavia and
Speaker 17: then that was through cost Co, which is about as
Speaker 17: reasonable as you can possibly get. But yeah, so we're
Speaker 17: hearing stories about forty one percent of people this year
Speaker 17: plan trips of three nights or fewer, meaning you know,
Speaker 17: we're taking long weekends. That's up from thirty seven percent.
Speaker 17: So we've seen a ten percent increase year over year
Speaker 17: in the people who are saying we're not going to
Speaker 17: take as big of a vacation as we've as we've
Speaker 17: done in the past. Americans who are planning vacations period
Speaker 17: it dropped below forty percent this year.
Speaker 9: That's still lower than twenty twenty four In about.
Speaker 17: Twelve percent of travelers say they've changed their plans because
Speaker 17: of the tariffs, which have spooked him enough to say,
Speaker 17: the heck with it, We'll just we'll stay in this summer.
Speaker 1: Well, I saw this one guy that's quoted in the article.
Speaker 1: He said the tariffs sort of got everybody around the
Speaker 1: world mad at us. He was worried about being treated
Speaker 1: poorly if he showed up at his original destination because
Speaker 1: the locals would frown upon us tourists. Is that really
Speaker 1: a thing?
Speaker 9: Yeah, I think some of that stuff is overblown. As
Speaker 9: for sexy headline.
Speaker 17: So, I have a good friend of mine who's a
Speaker 17: federal employee, and he was sent to Europe for about
Speaker 17: three months during all this stuff. He just got back
Speaker 17: and we asked him that question, are you getting grief
Speaker 17: from anybody? And most of it was good natured ribbing,
Speaker 17: you know, just kind of saying, hey, the United States
Speaker 17: isn't playing nice in the sandbox anymore. But he had
Speaker 17: no point faced any kind of true, you know, adverse
Speaker 17: consequences because of those headlines. I wouldn't worry too much
Speaker 17: about that part. People know the reality that the average
Speaker 17: person wandering around the streets, you know, from the United
Speaker 17: States doesn't have control over this and may may not
Speaker 17: agree with Oh that's I'm not too worried about that.
Speaker 17: That's the practical bottom line is. Listen, I'm not Trump.
Speaker 17: I didn't do it, for sure. I hurried him to
Speaker 17: the extent it's going to even do anything anyhow. Has
Speaker 17: tourism dropped off from foreigners coming into the United States?
Speaker 17: I know Canada had a fairly sizable double digit drop
Speaker 17: in Canadians interested in visiting the United States because of
Speaker 17: tariff'sligiously generally speaking, but how about generally the US tourism industry.
Speaker 1: Has it dropped off for a similar reasons?
Speaker 9: Absolutely? Yeah, for political purposes.
Speaker 17: Yeah, So international travel the United States is down about
Speaker 17: five percent in twenty five compared to twenty four. That's
Speaker 17: despite earlier forecasts that were predicting close to nine growth. Now,
Speaker 17: those forecasts, of course, did not take into account what
Speaker 17: the United States was going to be doing politically here
Speaker 17: in the first quarter of twenty twenty five. So we're
Speaker 17: now estimating that visitors spending is going to fall by
Speaker 17: about eleven percent, and that's going to cost US about
Speaker 17: eighteen billion dollars in money that is no longer coming
Speaker 17: over from overseas in the handbook or in the purchase
Speaker 17: of travelers.
Speaker 1: Well, but how does the dollar fare? And so far
Speaker 1: as you know, one's a spending ability, I mean, are
Speaker 1: we is a foreign national in good shape coming here?
Speaker 1: Do they get more value let's say, for their euro
Speaker 1: here than they otherwise would? Where's the currency stand?
Speaker 17: Yeah, so the US dollar is weakening, of course, because
Speaker 17: in what that means is that it is cheaper for
Speaker 17: foreigners to come to the United States.
Speaker 9: In the United States should be.
Speaker 17: Looking like a more attractive, attractive option because mathematically, speaking,
Speaker 17: it's cheaper for them to come overseas. I remember when
Speaker 17: the opposite was true. This is probably about twenty years ago, Brian. Yes,
Speaker 17: and I remember seeing ads in the paper of all
Speaker 17: this is how so I'm dating myself now, but ads
Speaker 17: in the paper for how cheap it was to go
Speaker 17: spend a long weekend shopping in Europe.
Speaker 9: Because the opposite was true.
Speaker 17: The dollar was so strong and the euro was so
Speaker 17: weak it would cost next to nothing for you to
Speaker 17: fly overseas and do that. The opposite is it's not
Speaker 17: quite the same here but at the but it hasn't
Speaker 17: had the impact in terms of the travel demand because
Speaker 17: of all the geopolitical stuff going on. So people right
Speaker 17: now are focusing on their passions, not the numbers.
Speaker 1: Brian James another edition of Monday Monday. Thanks to all
Speaker 1: Worth for loaning out every Monday for a nice chat
Speaker 1: and helpful information. Brian. I'll look forward to another audition
Speaker 1: next Monday, and I hope you have a wonderful week.
Speaker 9: You too, have a good week. Talk to you Monday.
Speaker 1: Thanks brother. It's eight thirty nine, almost e thirty nine
Speaker 1: here fifty five car City Talk Station, A very happy
Speaker 1: Monday to you. Oh, I have been intrigued by this
Speaker 1: since I saw him on the rundown. I'm happy to
Speaker 1: welcome to the fifty five Carssey Morning Show. Since any
Speaker 1: Native an Air Force veteran he did servicing Iraq, he
Speaker 1: is well also kind of crazy. I will tell you
Speaker 1: that Tom Hester welcome to the program. By way of background,
Speaker 1: he's currently the vice president and co founder Heroic Expeditions.
Speaker 1: It's a nonprofit organization whose mission is to empower veterans
Speaker 1: to reclaim their sense of self and help them find
Speaker 1: healing and unearth the boundless possibilities that await them after
Speaker 1: the years of military service. Programs offered by Heroic Expeditions
Speaker 1: dot org include mental health counseling referrals, group recreational activities,
Speaker 1: and a mental health first aid course. Let me start
Speaker 1: off by thanking you for your service to our country. Tim,
Speaker 1: it's a pleasure to have you on this morning.
Speaker 3: Thank you very much for having me something I've been
Speaker 3: looking forward to for a while.
Speaker 1: Now, And I said, kind of crazy. You're going to
Speaker 1: be at the Lunch with a Veteran event on Sunday,
Speaker 1: May twenty fifth, and this takes place at Arlington Memorial Gardens.
Speaker 1: Have I got that correct, Yes, and Arlington Memorial Gardens
Speaker 1: has obtained exclusive rights to something I'm sure near and
Speaker 1: dear to your heart at the PBS documentary called Defying
Speaker 1: Death on the Atlantic, and you're a crew member on
Speaker 1: the team that's featured in this PBS documentary.
Speaker 4: Is that correct?
Speaker 3: That is correct, and probably why you and many other
Speaker 3: call me crazy.
Speaker 1: That's that, okay? How many of us would sign up
Speaker 1: for what is described as a perilous three thousand mile
Speaker 1: ocean rowing race called the World's Toughest row. I mean,
Speaker 1: that's bad assery or craziness right there, My friend tell
Speaker 1: us all about what this race involves before we get
Speaker 1: to the details of what happened to you on that
Speaker 1: team in twenty twenty two.
Speaker 16: Well, I think you're absolutely right. Not many people would
Speaker 16: sign up for that amount of craziness a three thousand
Speaker 16: mile row, no sales, no engines, just you and your team.
Speaker 16: And if you ain't rowing, you ain't going three thousand
Speaker 16: miles from Lagamra and the Canary Islands to Antigua in
Speaker 16: the Caribbean.
Speaker 3: That was the goal to help motivate fellow veterans to.
Speaker 16: Get out of their little bubble out of their own world,
Speaker 16: go do something cool like you got to while you
Speaker 16: were in the military, overcome your challenges.
Speaker 3: We set out to help guys get over trauma, and
Speaker 3: we came home with just a little bit more of
Speaker 3: our own.
Speaker 1: Yes, you did. How many men are on the team?
Speaker 3: You've never cooperated the way we needed it too.
Speaker 1: Well, it's the ocean. You don't have no idea what
Speaker 1: you're going to run into out there in the ocean.
Speaker 1: How many men are on your team? We're on your team.
Speaker 16: We were all deployed together in two thousand and eight,
Speaker 16: so by the time the race started in twenty twenty two,
Speaker 16: we had known each other and become lifelong friends, were
Speaker 16: ready to go do some badassery together.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 1: And there were a total of how many of you?
Speaker 3: There were four of us four?
Speaker 16: Yeah, So there were always two guys rowing, and there
Speaker 16: were always two guys resting, rotated in two hour shifts
Speaker 16: twenty four to seven.
Speaker 1: So how long, okay, how long did you anticipate this
Speaker 1: three thousand mile because I know you didn't make it
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty two, and we're going to get to
Speaker 1: that the moment. I'm keeping my powder dry on on
Speaker 1: what happened to you. But the expectation of the time
Speaker 1: it would take to complete when you started out, Oh,
Speaker 1: it's going to take us about how many days to
Speaker 1: complete this?
Speaker 16: We were shooting for under fifty fifty days.
Speaker 18: Yes, unsupported. So we had all of our own food
Speaker 18: packed in the boat. We had solar panels, so we
Speaker 18: had energy on the boat, and we also had a
Speaker 18: desalinator on board so we could drink fresh water made
Speaker 18: right from the ocean.
Speaker 1: Now, in terms of the size of the craft, how
Speaker 1: many feet was it and was did it come with
Speaker 1: some form of shelter because you get inclement weather, as
Speaker 1: we're going to find out. So what does a general
Speaker 1: description of the boat look like.
Speaker 16: The boat was twenty eight feet long by five feet wide.
Speaker 16: The rowing portion the deck of the boat was completely open.
Speaker 16: There was no overhead shelter or anything. But each end
Speaker 16: of the boat had a cabin in it and that's
Speaker 16: where you would spend you off shift, so you were
Speaker 16: enclosed on either end of the boat.
Speaker 1: Okay, Now, the name of your team, which I got
Speaker 1: a big chuckle out of, and I know it was done.
Speaker 1: It done tongue in cheek, but let my listeners know.
Speaker 3: The team an organization that we rode for was called Fight.
Speaker 1: Or Die or is oar right? All right? So that
Speaker 1: makes perfect sense considering you're going on a three thousand
Speaker 1: mile ocean rowing race. So in twenty twenty two, when
Speaker 1: you embarked on this at the outset huge challenge, let
Speaker 1: my listeners know what happened. What's depicted in the Defying
Speaker 1: Death on the Atlantic documentary.
Speaker 16: Sure, so, like you had said, the race started in December,
Speaker 16: I don't The reason it starts at that time frame
Speaker 16: is because the trade winds off of Africa should have
Speaker 16: formed by then. Well, what had happened to us? Right
Speaker 16: around Christmas Day? There was a giant storm that passed
Speaker 16: over Buffalo, New York. I think it dropped like eight
Speaker 16: feet as no wantum, and then the jet stream pushed
Speaker 16: out to the North Atlantic. Well, that storm generated thirty
Speaker 16: forty foot swells, sustained thirty nine winds, and on the
Speaker 16: morning of the twenty eighth our boat that was supposed
Speaker 16: to self right in the event of a capsize, our
Speaker 16: boat capsized on top of a wave.
Speaker 3: We got hit by a giant got.
Speaker 16: The wind flipped our boat over in the middle of
Speaker 16: the night, and never self righted the way it was
Speaker 16: supposed to, so effectively ending our race right at that moment.
Speaker 1: And so this is the middle of the night and
Speaker 1: you're out in the middle of the ocean. Obviously there's
Speaker 1: no light going on around there. Can I just ask you,
Speaker 1: because I know exactly if I would, that would be
Speaker 1: a I have to change my shorts inducing moment in time.
Speaker 1: What were your emotions like at the time that that happened.
Speaker 1: And I know you were out at sea for a
Speaker 1: while thereafter, We'll get to that in a minute, but
Speaker 1: what were your emotions like at the very moment that
Speaker 1: that happened.
Speaker 16: I was in the cabin and I'm very grateful that
Speaker 16: I was inside when it happened.
Speaker 3: I was kind of in between sleep and total fear
Speaker 3: at that moment. Yeah, we knew we were in probably.
Speaker 16: Not the best of situations, so we were all kind
Speaker 16: of on edge the whole day. The moment the boat
Speaker 16: flipped over, there was probably a split second.
Speaker 3: Of oh my god, we're upside down. This is not good.
Speaker 3: But right after that training kind of kicked in.
Speaker 16: This is a race and a moment we had been
Speaker 16: preparing for for a couple of years at that point,
Speaker 16: so I was in a position where I knew the
Speaker 16: boat was supposed to flip back over, but it was
Speaker 16: totally dark and all I could see was.
Speaker 3: The waterline in the window of the hatch and it
Speaker 3: didn't move.
Speaker 1: Oh my, Now you swam out then from the hatch,
Speaker 1: I presume.
Speaker 16: So, kind of like a car accident. Time slowed down
Speaker 16: a lot while I was in the cabin.
Speaker 4: I had to.
Speaker 16: Grab all of our gear that we were going to need.
Speaker 16: I had heard one of my teammates will, yeah, we
Speaker 16: need to get to the life raft. The boat's not
Speaker 16: flipping over, So at that moment it was time to
Speaker 16: go to work. I knew I needed to grab a
Speaker 16: lot of stuff for us. Turned out I had been
Speaker 16: in that cabin for about forty to forty five minutes
Speaker 16: before I left the cabin and get to the life raft.
Speaker 3: Wow, and well, I had no idea it was that long.
Speaker 3: It felt like maybe five to ten.
Speaker 1: Oh my. And was all of your your crewmates were
Speaker 1: safe in the quote unquote safe sense under the circumstances,
Speaker 1: Maybe not so safe considering the storm raging around you.
Speaker 1: In the fact that your boat was flipped over but
Speaker 1: you had the life raft. Did any point in time
Speaker 1: any of the crewmates like lose track of the boat
Speaker 1: or the craft I get washed out that they were
Speaker 1: concerned that they might not be rescued or get get
Speaker 1: back to the life raft.
Speaker 16: So two of us were in the cars and two
Speaker 16: of the teammates were actually on deck still in the
Speaker 16: rowing position.
Speaker 3: So when you are not in a cabin, you are
Speaker 3: required to be harnessed and tethered.
Speaker 16: So when the boat did flip over, two of the
Speaker 16: teammates were actually ejected opposite directions.
Speaker 3: The other two of us were still in.
Speaker 16: The cabin right, So them being tethered to the boat
Speaker 16: was paramount to everybody making at home.
Speaker 1: Well, that's that's reassuring to know. I was kind of
Speaker 1: wondering how that worked out. So thank god for safety
Speaker 1: equipment and portable radio. Did you have an opportunity to
Speaker 1: communicate you weren't flying blind out there in the middle
Speaker 1: of the ocean before the vote boat cap size? Did
Speaker 1: you have a portable radio or something that went with
Speaker 1: a lifeboat or the lifeboat have one built in?
Speaker 3: So we had a satellite phone that we actually had
Speaker 3: to use and keep on every day.
Speaker 16: We were part of a race hosted by Atlantic Campaigns
Speaker 16: and they have very strict safety requirements, and one of
Speaker 16: those is you talk on a satellite phone with their
Speaker 16: safety officer at least every other day. And we had
Speaker 16: just spoken with him on the satellite phone the day before,
Speaker 16: so you know, we had the satellite phone on a charger.
Speaker 3: When I was drabbing gear to go to the life raft,
Speaker 3: that was one of the things I grabbed.
Speaker 16: I grab the satellite phone, a VHF radio, and a
Speaker 16: handheld GPS.
Speaker 3: That's about all we had. Now by the time we
Speaker 3: got to the life raft, though, the satellite phone.
Speaker 16: Had gotten wet and it didn't work. Oh no, So
Speaker 16: our only communication devices were two cell phones that weren't
Speaker 16: going to work in the middle of the Atlantic, and
Speaker 16: a VHF radio that works by line of sight. So
Speaker 16: that's actually not very far when you're still in thirty
Speaker 16: foot waves.
Speaker 1: Jeez. So how many days were you on the or
Speaker 1: how long we were on the how long I should
Speaker 1: say we were on the life raft before you were rescued,
Speaker 1: and how did you get rescued.
Speaker 16: Well, we had been in the life raft for approximately
Speaker 16: sixteen hours before ever making contact with anybody.
Speaker 3: On about our.
Speaker 16: Sixteen and a half we made another May Day call
Speaker 16: on that VHF radio and we received a reply via
Speaker 16: two Mike clicks from who We had no idea who
Speaker 16: could hear us, but at that point we didn't care.
Speaker 16: About an hour later we were able to communicate with somebody,
Speaker 16: still didn't know who it was, and then an hour
Speaker 16: later we were picked up by a six hundred foot
Speaker 16: cargo ship out of the Netherlands.
Speaker 3: Wow, from a deflating life raft.
Speaker 1: Oh my, And I'm sure all of this is in
Speaker 1: the PBS documentary to Fine Death on the Atlantic. Again,
Speaker 1: it's Arlington Memorial Gardens has got the exclusive rights to
Speaker 1: premiere this. You will be at the premiere if you
Speaker 1: show up at Arlington Memorial Gardens May fourth, that's Saturday
Speaker 1: one is the first showing. You got a four pm
Speaker 1: showing on the twenty fourth, and then on Sunday, May
Speaker 1: twenty fifth is a two pm showing. And that's the
Speaker 1: day when you'll be speaking at the annual luncheon with
Speaker 1: a veteran That's the twenty fifth of May. Right, Yes,
Speaker 1: I am very excited for that, I guess, and you know,
Speaker 1: I thank god you're alive and able to talk about this.
Speaker 1: Just amazing story.
Speaker 3: Just.
Speaker 1: Proving again why I would never volunteer to do something
Speaker 1: as crazy as this Sunday.
Speaker 3: Maybe people would not.
Speaker 16: I believe more people have been to space than have
Speaker 16: rowed a boat across an ocean.
Speaker 1: And that sounds about right to be a Heroic Expeditions
Speaker 1: dot org for my veteran friends in the audio, in
Speaker 1: the audience doing great things, Veterans united in resilience, bonded
Speaker 1: forged in adventure like the one we just talked about.
Speaker 1: It's been a real pleasure having on the program, and
Speaker 1: thanks again for your service to our country and your
Speaker 1: continued service to our country with your organization Heroic Expeditions.
Speaker 3: Well, thank you.
Speaker 1: The pleasure has been all mine. Crazy man got respect,
Speaker 1: There's no doubt about it. Eight fifty one fifty five
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